Gelawdewos

Galawdewos
ዓፄ ገላውዴዎስ
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Contemporary Portuguese depiction of Gelawdewos receiving the Latin Patriarch Andrés de Oviedo
Emperor of Ethiopia
Reign3 September 1540 – 23 March 1559
PredecessorDawit II
SuccessorMenas
Born1521/1522
Amhara, Ethiopian Empire
Died29 March 1559(1559-03-29) (aged 37–38)
Fatagar, Ethiopian Empire
IssueSabana Giyorgis[1]
Mashihawit[1]
Names
Mar Gelawdewos
Regnal name
Atsnaf Sagad I
DynastyHouse of Solomon
FatherDawit II
MotherSeble Wongel
ReligionEthiopian Orthodox

Galawdewos (Ge'ez: ገላውዴዎስ, 1521/1522 – 23 March 1559), also known as Mar Gelawdewos[2] (Amharic: ማር ገላውዴዎስ), was Emperor of Ethiopia from 3 September 1540 until his death in 1559, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. His throne name was Atsnaph Sagad I (Ge'ez: አጽናፍ ሰገድ). A male line descendant of medieval Amhara kings, he was a younger son of Dawit II and Seble Wongel.[3][4]

  1. ^ a b Budge, E. A. Wallis (1928). A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia (Volume 2). London: Methuen & Co. p. 356.
  2. ^ Conzelman (1895). Le chronique de Galawdewos. Paris. p. 135.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ Danver, Steven L (2015). Native Peoples of the World: An Encyclopedia of Groups, Cultures and Contemporary Issues. Routledge. p. 16. ISBN 9781317464006.
  4. ^ Remedius Prutky states that Gelawdewos had a son, Na'od; this son is not mentioned in his Royal Chronicle. J. H. Arrowsmith-Brown, translator and editor, Prutky's Travels to Ethiopia and Other Countries (London: Hakluyt Society, 1991), p. 112 and note.