Ariaramnes King of Persia [60668]

  General Notes:

http://www.rpi.edu/~holmes/Hobbies/Genealogy/ps22/ps22_448.htm

Ariaramnes called himself "great King, King of Kings, King of the land of Parsa." Cyrus, more modest, or perhaps less powerful, contented himself with the title "great King of Parsumash." Within a few years Ariaramnes vanishes from the scene, but not before he had caused to be written in an ancient cuneiform script on a gold tablet which still survives the proudest of all the boasts uttered by the Persian Kings. Remembering that the hardy Persians had depended upon their horses for victory, he wrote:

THE LAND OF THE PERSIANS, WHICH I POSSESS,
HAS BEEN GRANTED UNTO ME BY THE GREAT GOD AHURAMAZDA.
MY LAND IS FILLED WITH FINE HORSES AND GOOD MEN,
AND I AM THE KING OF THIS LAND.

Ariaramnes was the first to call himself "King of Kings," a title which Persian sovereigns have continued to employ until the present day, but we do not know how he lost his kingdom to his brother. For a few brief years Cyrus rules over Parsumash, Anshan, and Parsa He is followed by his son Cambyses, who married into the royal family of Media. From the union between the gentle King Cambyses and Princess Mandane was born a son called Kurush, whom we know as Cyrus the Great.

Ariaramnes married.