Menas of Ethiopia

Menas
ዓፄ ሜናስ
Mural depicting Emperor Menas at Ura Kidane Mehret Church, Ethiopia
Emperor of Ethiopia
Reign1559–1563
PredecessorGelawdewos
SuccessorSarsa Dengel
Born1535
Died1563(1563-00-00) (aged 27–28)
Wag, Ethiopian Empire
SpouseAdimas Moas
IssueSarsa Dengel
Lesana Kristos[1]
Hawaryat[1]
Tazkaro[1]
Regnal name
Admas Sagad I
HouseHouse of Solomon
ReligionEthiopian Orthodox Tewahedo(1535-1542)
Islam(1542-1543)
Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo(1543-1563)

Menas (Ge'ez: ሜናስ, romanized: mēnās) or Minas, throne name Admas Sagad I (Ge’ez: አድማስ ሰገድ, died 1563), was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1559 until his death in 1563, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was a brother of Gelawdewos and the son of Emperor Dawit II.

  1. ^ a b c Budge, E. A. Wallis (1928). A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia (Volume 2). London: Methuen & Co. p. 356.