Padgospan

Padgospan (also spelled Padghospan, Padhuspan and Baduspan) was a high-ranking office in the late Sasanian era, which functioned as the lieutenant of the Spahbed (marshal).

Known Paygospans

Name	Area	Spahbed	King	Other titles
Dadhi, son of Nakhirjan	"the North": Adurbadagan, Armenia and its areas, Media, Tabaristan and its regions (i.e. Gilan and Daylam)	unknown	Khosrow I
Mardanshah	Nemroz (Sistan)	Shahrbaraz	Hormizd IV, Khosrow II
Shahin Vahmanzadegan	Mesopotamia (Assyria)	unknown	Khosrow II	Marzban of Armenia
unknown ("al-Fadhusfan")	Spahan	unknown	Yazdegerd III	Ostandar, Marzban of Spahan, King (Malik)

References

↑ Morony 2005, p. 28.
↑ Persian: داذی, romanized: Dādhī, son of Persian: نخیرجان, romanized: Nakhīrjān (Persian: نخویرگان, romanized: Nakhwīragān) (Al-Tabari)
↑ محمدحسن گنجی، عباس زریاب خویی: آذربایجان. در: دائرةالمعارف بزرگ اسلامی. ۱۳۹۸.
↑ Ilkka Syvänne: Military History of Late Rome 602–641. Pen and Sword Military, 2022, ISBN 9781399075701, p. 214.
↑ According to Pourshariati, "al-Fadhusfan" (which is the Araibzed form of Paygospan) was actually the title, and not the name, of the person. Cf. Parvaneh Pourshariati: Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran. I.B. Tauris, London 2008, ISBN 9781845116453, p. 247.
↑ Hossein Kamaly: ISFAHAN vi. MEDIEVAL PERIOD. In: Encyclopædia Iranica.

Sources

Marciak, Michał (2017). Sophene, Gordyene, and Adiabene: Three Regna Minora of Northern Mesopotamia Between East and West. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-35072-4.
Morony, Michael G. (2005) [1984]. Iraq After The Muslim Conquest. Gorgias Press LLC. ISBN 978-1-59333-315-7.^{[permanent dead link]}
Pourshariati, Parvaneh (2008). Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran. London and New York: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-84511-645-3.

[FOOTNOTEMorony200528-1] Morony 2005, p. 28.

[2] Persian: داذی, romanized: Dādhī, son of Persian: نخیرجان, romanized: Nakhīrjān (Persian: نخویرگان, romanized: Nakhwīragān) (Al-Tabari)

[3] محمدحسن گنجی، عباس زریاب خویی: آذربایجان. در: دائرةالمعارف بزرگ اسلامی. ۱۳۹۸.

[4] Ilkka Syvänne: Military History of Late Rome 602–641. Pen and Sword Military, 2022, ISBN 9781399075701, p. 214.

[5] According to Pourshariati, "al-Fadhusfan" (which is the Araibzed form of Paygospan) was actually the title, and not the name, of the person. Cf. Parvaneh Pourshariati: Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran. I.B. Tauris, London 2008, ISBN 9781845116453, p. 247.

[6] Hossein Kamaly: ISFAHAN vi. MEDIEVAL PERIOD. In: Encyclopædia Iranica.