| Baeda Maryam III | |||||
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| Emperor of Ethiopia | |||||
| Reign | April 1826 | ||||
| Predecessor | Gigar | ||||
| Successor | Gigar | ||||
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| House | House of Solomon | ||||
| Religion | Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo | ||||
Baeda Maryam III, also known as Bida Maryam, was Emperor of Ethiopia for a few days in April 1826. Baeda Maryam was a figurehead, set on the throne by Dejazmach Haile Maryam, the governor of Semien. Elisabeth-Dorothea Hecht has argued that this Baeda Maryam is the same person as Baeda Maryam II, noting that the information that the earlier Baeda Maryam had died in combat in 1787 is wrong.[1]