Rulers of Gilan

[Matthew Rockefeller]

David Hughes and I have been discussing the rulers of Gilan, and I'd
thought I'd share the recent research. He had previously identified
Gilanshah, the son of Bostanai, with Gil Gawbara, the first independent
king/prince of Gilan. I noticed that the dates simply don't work out.
He died in 660, and Gilanshah would have been way too young to have
fathered a child by this time. Then I did some further research and
pieced together this lineage. Unfortunately, this means that Gilanshah
ben Bostanai is lost to history, and wasn't the ancestor of this
short-lived dynasty that does have descendants, including myself.

Peroz, Emperor of Persia [459 - 484], Governor of Seistan (d 484)
married
Mihrandokht, daughter of Akhshunwar, King of the Hephthalites

Jamasp, Emperor of Persia [496 - 498] (d 498)

Narses, Governor of Ragha (d ca 550)

Peroz (d ca 600)

Farrikhan, Governor of Gilan (d after 643)

Gil Gawbara, King of Gilan (d 660), became independent of Persian
vassalage, a contemporary of Yezdegerd III

Dabuya, King of Gilan [660 - 676] (d 676), brother of Khurshid I, King
of Gilan [676 - 709]

Farrikhan "the Great", King of Gilan [709 - 722] (d 722), brother of
Saruya, King of Gilan [734]

Dadburz Mihr, King of Gilan [722 - 734] (d 748), abdicated in 734

Khurshid II, King of Gilan [734 - 762] (d 762)

Prince Hormuz

a daughter
married
Prince Isaac Qarim (776 - 793), a son and father of rulers of
Tabaristan, descended from Exilarch Bostanai