Yazid III.

Yazid III, Arabic يزيد بن الوليد بن عبد الملك, DMG Yazīd ibn al - Waleed ibn ʿ Abd al -Malik. (* 701, † 25 September 744) was the twelfth Caliph of the Umayyad ( 744).

Yazid ibn al - Walid ibn Abd al -Malik was a son of al - Walid I ( 705-715 ) and a princess of Sogdiana / Transoxiana. Because of the autocratic government of his cousin al - Walid II ( 743-744 ) came soon to conflict. As this young sons wanted to use as heir apparent Yazeed was proclaimed as the new Caliph, Al - Walid was overthrown and killed.

Yazid III. had to be in the subsequent period but problems throughout the empire, recognized. Especially the important governor Nasr ibn Sayyar in Khorassan and Marwan in Armenia and Mesopotamia behaved waiting. But the outbreak of the conflict, there was no more, because Yazid III. soon fell ill and died on 25 September 744. Successor was designated by him brother Ibrahim.