Cleombrotus (regent)

For the king, see Cleombrotus I.

Cleombrotus (Greek: Κλεόμβροτος, Kleómbrotos), regent of Sparta between 480 and 479 BC. He was a member of the Agiad dynasty, the son of Anaxandridas II and the brother of Cleomenes I, Dorieus and of Leonidas I. When the latter died, he became the tutor of his nephew Pleistarchus, son of Leonidas, and leader of the Greek infantry at the beginning of the second phase of the Greco-Persian Wars. Cleombrotus was in command of the Spartan and Peloponnesian troops who built the wall across the Isthmus of Corinth that was intended to keep the Persian army out of the Peloponnese.^[1] He died soon after returning to Sparta from the Isthmus.^[2]

Cleombrotus
Regent of Sparta
Reign	480–479 BC
Predecessor	Leonidas I
Successor	Pausanias
Died	479 BC Sparta
Issue	Pausanias Nikomedes
Greek	Κλεόμβροτος
House	Agiad
Father	Anaxandridas II

He was the father of Pausanias and the Spartan general Nicomedes.^[3]