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Gurdanshah ben Bostanai, Prince of Gilan
- Preferred Name: Gurdanshah ben Bostanai, Prince of Gilan
- Gender: M
- Clan Name: with note: Description: Dabuyid dynasty
- Birth: ABT 635 in Baghdād, Baghdād, Iraq at LATI: N3.3384 LONG: E4.4211
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Prince of Gilan
- Death: 676 in Gilan, Iran at LATI: N7.195 LONG: E9.52
- Religion: Zoroastrianism
- FSID: LQRS-WF1
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Gil Gavbara (Persian: گیل گیلانشاه), known in Arabic sources as Jil-i Jilanshah and Gavbarih, was king and founder of the Dabuyid dynasty in 642, which he ruled until his death in 660.
According to Ibn Isfandiyar, the Dabuyids were descended from a brother of the Sassanid shah Kavadh I, whom was named Djamasp. Gil Gavbara was the son of Piruz, who is described as brave as the Iranian mythological hero Rostam. Piruz later became the ruler of Gilan, and married a woman who bore him a son named Gil Gavbara
In ca. 642, Piruz died, and was succeeded by Gil Gavbara as the ruler of Gilan. Gil Gavbara was later given all of Tabaristan, which led to the formal conferment of the titles of Gil-Gilan ("ruler of Gilan") and Padashwargarshah ("Shah of Patashwargar", the old name of Tabaristan's mountains), to Gil Gavbara's son Dabuya, by the last Sasanian shah, Yazdegerd III.
=== Male, not female ===
Although the website www.patentlyjewish.com/unbroken-chain-direct-link-from-sinai/ lists this person as a 'daughter', the webiste https://www.geni.com/people/Haninai-al-Nehar-Pe%E1%B8%B3kod-ben-Bustanai-bar-Adai-Exilarch-Gaon-of-Sura/6000000001263043349 lists this person as a male, and gives several titles that were traditionally male in nature, to this person; so, I am assuming that this person was a male. Irregardless, this person is still a child to the same father listed on both site, and a descendant of Ishmael, son of Abraham (Abram) and Terah of the Old Testament.
Preferred Parents:
Father: Bostanaï Guriya Ben Hanina Ben Haminaï Ha-David 1st Exilarch of the 3rd Dynasty, b. 589 in Pumbedita, Babylonia, Iraq d. 660 in Baghdād, Iraque
Mother: Dara Izdundad of Persia, b. 595 in Babylonia d. 660 in Persia, Gibeon, Hardap, Namibia
Family 1: unnamed bint Peroz,
- Dabuya ben Gurdanshah of Gilan, d. 712 in Gilan, Iran
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