Yohannes I

Yohannes I
ቀዳማዊ ዓፄ ዮሐንስ
Yohannes I as depicted on a French engraving
Emperor of Ethiopia
Reign18 October 1667 – 19 July 1682[1]
PredecessorFasilides
SuccessorIyasu I
Bornc. 1640 (1640)
Died19 July 1682(1682-07-19) (aged 41–42)
ConsortSabla Wangel[2][3]
Issue5 sons including Iyasu I and 2 daughters.[4][5]
Regnal name
A'ilaf Sagad
HouseHouse of Solomon
FatherFasilides
ReligionOrthodox Tewahedo

Yohannes I (Ge'ez: ቀዳማዊ ዮሐንስ), also known as Yohannes the Righteous (Ge'ez: ጻድቁ ዮሐንስ), throne name A'ilaf Sagad (Ge'ez: አእላፍ ሰገድ; c. 1640 – 19 July 1682) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1667 to 1682,[6] and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was the fourth son of Fasilides.

Yohannes was appointed nəgusä nägäst by a council of the senior dignitaries of the Empire, at the encouragement of the noble Blattengeta Malka Krestos. The council then imprisoned the other sons of Fasilides on Mount Wehni, continuing the practice Fasilides had revived.

  1. ^ Stewart, John (2006). African States and Rulers (third ed.). London: McFarland & Company Inc. p. 93.
  2. ^ Budge, E. A. Wallis (1928). A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia (Volume 2). London: Methuen & Co. p. 406.
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  6. ^ James Bruce wrote that Yohannes ruled between 1665–1680, but E. A. Wallis Budge showed this was an error by identifying an eclipse seen in Ethiopia during his reign with one calculated to have occurred on 4 November 1668 (E.A. Wallis Budge, A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia, 1928 [Oosterhout, the Netherlands: Anthropological Publications, 1970], p. 408).