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== Family == A passage of the ''[[Chronicle of Edessa]]'' identifies "Anzoy the Roman" as the wife of Kavad II and mother of Ardashir III. She was probably a Christian princess from the Byzantine Empire.{{sfn|Martindale|Jones|Morris|1992|p=94}} According to ''[[Chronicle of Khuzestan|Guidi's Chronicle]]'', Boran was also Kavad II's wife, demonstrating the practice in Zoroastrianism of ''[[Xwedodah]]'', or close-kin marriage.{{sfn|Daryaee|1999|p=77}}{{sfn|Al-Tabari|1985β2007|loc=v. 5: p. 404 (note 996)}}{{efn|According to the 7th-century [[Armenians|Armenian]] historian [[Sebeos]], Boran was the wife of [[Shahrbaraz]]. However, according to the modern historians Marie Louise Chaumont and [[Parvaneh Pourshariati]], this is unlikely.{{sfn|Chaumont|1989|p=366}}{{sfn|Pourshariati|2008|p=205 (note 1139)}}}}
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