Yazid III
Umayyad caliph
Years: 701 - 744
Yazid ibn al-Walid ibn 'Abd al-Malik or Yazid III (701 – 25 September 744) is an Umayyad caliph.
He reigns for six months, from April 15 to October 3 or 4, 744, and dies in that office.
Yazid is the son of a Persian princess who had been gifted as a concubine to Caliph al-Walid I.
