[1] He ruled during a time in Shirvanshah history that scholarship has referred to "a period of total confusion", due to the lack of written records and contradictory numismatic evidence.

[2] Based on numismatic evidence, it was initially suggested that Fariburz III's father Garshasp I did not rule after 1225.

The numismatist Blau discovered a unique coin with the name of Garshasp I, and which mentions the Abbasid caliph al-Mustansir I, who ruled from 1226 to 1242.

[6] Fariburz accepted suzerainty of the Khwarazmshah Jalal al-Din Mangburni in 1226, during his invasion of Caucasus.

[9] The 13th-century Persian anthology Nozhat al-Majales of Jamal al-Din Khalil Shirvani was dedicated to Fariburz III.