Editing Hormizd I (section)

== Rise ==
[[Image:Gold coin of Shapur I, minted at Ctesiphon between 260–272.jpg|thumb|[[Gold dinar]] of [[Shapur I]]]]
Hormizd is first mentioned during the wars of Shapur I against the [[Roman Empire]].{{sfn|Shayegan|2004|pp=462-464}} He was made the king of [[Sasanian Armenia|Armenia]] after its conquest by Shapur I in 252.{{sfn|Shayegan|2004|pp=462-464}} Hormizd is believed to be many modern historians to have taken part in Shapur I's second Roman expedition, which took place in the Roman provinces of [[Roman Syria|Syria]], [[Cilicia (Roman province)|Cilicia]], and [[Cappadocia (Roman province)|Cappadocia]], and which lasted from 253 to 256.{{sfn|Shayegan|2004|pp=462-464}} This is supported by the reports of the Cappadocian conquests.{{sfn|Shayegan|2004|pp=462-464}} Cappadocia does not appear to have been the only area that Hormizd fought in: according to the ''[[Augustan History|Scriptores Historiae Augustae]]'', the Roman rebel [[Cyriades]] assisted Shapur I and a certain Odomastes in the conquest of [[Antioch]].{{sfn|Shayegan|2004|pp=462-464}} The name ''Odomastes'' is an incorrect transliteration of Hormizd, and may thus suggest that after plundering Cappadocia, Hormizd took part in the [[Siege of Antioch (253)|siege of Antioch in 253]].{{sfn|Shayegan|2004|pp=462-464}} 

Hormizd is mentioned in an [[Shapur I's inscription at the Ka'ba-ye Zartosht|inscription]] on the wall of the [[Ka'ba-ye Zartosht]] at [[Naqsh-e Rostam]] near [[Persepolis]] in southern Iran, which Shapur I had created in order to praise his sons by citing their names and titles.{{sfn|Kia|2016|p=233}}{{sfn|Shayegan|2004|pp=462-464}} In the inscription, Hormizd is given the title of ''Wuzurg Šāh Arminān'' ("Great King of the Armenians").{{sfn|Shayegan|2004|pp=462-464}}{{sfn|Weber|2016}} The 4th-century Armenian historian [[Agathangelos]] states that this title was only given to the heir of the ''shahanshah''.{{sfn|Weber|2016}}

When Shapur I was on his deathbed, he crowned Hormizd as the new ''shahanshah'' of Iran, in May 270.{{sfn|Al-Tabari|1985–2007|loc=v. 5: pp. 39, 43}}{{sfn|Shahbazi|2005}}