Tudhaliya

Tudḫaliya is the name of several Hittite kings or royals. It is not clear how many kings bore that name, and numbering schemes vary from source to source.

• Tudḫaliya (sometimes called Tudḫaliya I) is deduced from his early placement in a later offering list as a hypothetical pre-Empire king who might have reigned in the early 17th century BC.^[1]
• Tudḫaliya I (sometimes considered identical with the following, as Tudḫaliya I/II ^[2]), ruled in the mid-15th century BC, son of Kantuzzili.^[3]
• Tudḫaliya II (sometimes considered identical with the preceding, as Tudḫaliya I/II ^[4] or renumbered as Tudḫaliya I ^[5]), ruled at the start of the 14th century BC, father-in-law of Arnuwanda I.^[6]
• Tudḫaliya III (sometimes renumbered as Tudḫaliya II ^[7]), in the early 14th century BC, the son of Arnuwanda I and predecessor of Šuppiluliuma I.^[8]
• Tudḫaliya the Younger (sometimes numbered as Tudḫaliya III ^[9]), in the mid-14th century BC, the son of Tudḫaliya III, he probably never reigned.^[10]
• Tudḫaliya IV (very rarely renumbered as Tudḫaliya III ^[11]), ruled around 1230 BC, the son of Ḫattušili III.^[12]
• Tudḫaliya V possibly ruled around 1180 BC, perhaps the son of Šuppiluliuma II.^[13]
• Tudḫaliya, Neo-Hittite king(s) of Carchemish, fl. c. 1100 BC