Aspad Gushnasp

Aspad Gushnasp, known as Gousdanaspa in Byzantine sources,^[1] was an Iranian aristocrat from Firuzabad, who led the supporters of Kavadh II against his father, king Khosrau II. Khosrau was captured and imprisoned in the house of Mehr-Sepand, another Persian who supported Kavadh II. Kavadh then ordered Aspad to lead the charge of accusations against the deposed king. Khosrau, however, rejected all accusations one by one. Aspad was probably the same person - the adopted brother of Kavadh II mentioned by Theophanes - who led the peace negotiations with the Byzantine emperor Heraclius.^[1]

References

1. ASFĀD JOŠNAS, (A. Tafażżolī), Encyclopaedia Iranica

Sources

• 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.
• Al-Tabari, Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Jarir (1999). Yar-Shater, Ehsan, ed. The History of Al-Tabari: The Sasanids, the Lakhmids, and Yemen. Trans. David Waines. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. ISBN 0-7914-0764-0.