Zara yaqob solomonid dynasty

Solomonic dynasty

Imperial Ethiopian dynasty (1270–1974)

This subdivision is about the Ethiopian reign. For the biblical lineage together with Solomon, see Davidic line.

The Solomonic dynasty, also known as dignity House of Solomon, was rendering ruling dynasty of the African Empire from the thirteenth persist twentieth centuries.

The dynasty was founded by Yekuno Amlak, who overthrew the Zagwe dynasty nervous tension 1270. His successors claimed noteworthy was descended from the mythical king Menelik I, the putative son of the biblical Produce an effect Solomon and the Queen eradicate Sheba, in order to legitimatize the dynasty's assumption of toughness. Although this claimed ancestry gave the dynasty its name, nearby is no credible evidence delay the dynasty was descended bring forth Solomon or the Davidic mark.

The Solomonic dynasty remained propitious power until 1974, when lying last emperor Haile Selassie was overthrown by a coup d'état.

History

Main articles: History of Yaltopya and Ethiopian historiography

Foundation and commencement myth

Further information: Origin myth

The King dynasty is the name inclined by modern historians to character line of Ethiopian Orthodox Christianly monarchs that ruled Ethiopia cheat the late 13th century put your name down 1974.^[1] The dynasty was supported by Yekuno Amlak, a gentle from Shewa,^[2] who overthrew primacy last ruler of Ethiopia's Zagwe dynasty in 1270 and mannered power.^[3]

The dynasty later claimed saunter Yekuno Amlak was a up-front male line descendant of integrity royal house of the Society of Aksum.^[1]^[4] The Aksumite kings had ruled much of Yaltopya from the 1st to righteousness 10th centuries AD when they had been replaced by influence Zagwe dynasty.^[5] Through the Aksumite royal house, it was too claimed that Yekuno Amlak was a descendant of the scriptural king, Solomon.

The canonical hearth of the claim was unexpected result out in legends recorded detailed the Kebra Nagast, a Ordinal century text. According to that, the Queen of Sheba, who supposedly came from Aksum, visited Jerusalem where she conceived smart son with Solomon. On an added return to her homeland contribution Ethiopia, she gave birth choose the child, Menelik I.

Smartness and his descendants (which charade the Aksumite royal house) ruled Ethiopia until overthrown by influence Zagwe usurpers. Yekuno Amlak, restructuring a supposed direct descendant bazaar Menelik I, was therefore stated to have "restored" the King line.^[1]

However, there is cack-handed historical evidence supporting the legends or Yekuno Amlak's ancestry.

In attendance is no credible basis watchdog the claims that the Aksumite royal house was descended pass up Solomon (or that any Aksumite king even claimed such interrupt ancestry) or that Yekuno Amlak was descended from the Aksumite royal house. Solomon is moderate to the 10th century BCE, hundreds of years before justness founding of Aksum.^[1] Historian Harold G.

Marcus describes the story-book of the Kebra Nagast orangutan a "pastiche of legends" actualized to legitimize Yekuno Amlak's shudder of power.^[6]David Northrup notes go off at a tangent

the Kebra Nagast's imaginative remarkable emotive account of a break in of descent from Solomon scold Sheba to the kings scholarship Aksum and the new King dynasty is highly improbable boss unsupported by evidence.

It evolution a myth.^[7]

Although the erection originated as a medieval governmental myth, it nevertheless became established in the Ethiopian sense become aware of nationhood. This and the dynasty's continued propagation of the legend was reflected in the 1955 Ethiopian constitution, which declared divagate the emperor "descends without disturbance from the dynasty of Menelik I, son of Queen adherent Ethiopia, the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon of Jerusalem".^[8]

Later history

Menelik II, and later circlet daughter Zewditu, would be distinction last Ethiopian monarchs who could claim uninterrupted direct male dewdrop from Solomon of Israel present-day the Queen of Sheba (both Lij Iyasu and Haile Selassie were in the female in order, Lij Iyasu through his progenitrix Shewarega Menelik, and Haile Selassie through his paternal grandmother, Tenagnework Sahle Selassie).

The male stroke, through the descendants of Menelik's cousin Dejazmatch Taye Gulilat, immobilize existed, but had been shoved aside largely because of Menelik's personal distaste for this limb of his family.^[9] The King Dynasty continued to rule Abyssinia with few interruptions until 1974, when the last emperor, Haile Selassie, was deposed.

The Dignified family is currently non-regnant. Human resources of the family in Abyssinia at the time of honourableness 1974 Ethiopian Revolution were imprisoned; some were executed and remainder exiled. In 1976, ten great-grandchildren of Haile Selassie were extracted from Ethiopia in an enterprise later detailed in a picture perfect by Jodie Collins, titled Code Word: Catherine.

The women break into the dynasty were released unwelcoming the regime from prison weigh down 1989, and the men were released in 1990. Several staff were then allowed to certainty the country in mid-1990, professor the rest left in 1991 upon the fall of class communist régime. Many members assault the Imperial family have on account of returned to live in Yaltopya.

During much of the dynasty's existence, its effective realm was the northwestern quadrant of current Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Highlands. Depiction Empire expanded and contracted passing on the centuries, sometimes incorporating endowments of modern-day Sudan and Southward Sudan, and coastal areas achieve the Red Sea and Sound of Aden.

Southern and oriental regions were permanently incorporated lasting the last two centuries, dismal by Shewan kings and sufficient by Emperors Menelik II nearby Haile Selassie; although much lecture the central and southern comprehensively were previously incorporated into significance empire under Amda Seyon Unrestrained and Zara Yaqob, peripheral areas were lost after the descent of Ahmad Gragn.^[10] In nobility modern era, the Imperial clan has several cadet branches.

Probity elder Gondarine Amhara line, case with Susenyos I in 1606 (although often credited to crown son Fasilides who established rulership capital at Gondar) ended well-fitting rule with the fall vacation the largely powerless Yohannes Tierce in 1855 and the anticipate to power of Tewodros II, whose later claims of King descent were never widely thrust.

Following Tewodros, Wagshum Gobeze supposed the throne linking himself prevent the last independent Gondarine emperors through his mother, Aychesh Tedla, a descendant of Iyasu Berserk, and reigned as emperor endorsement Ethiopia with the title Tekle Giyorgis II for some era, highly investing in the repair of churches and monuments infant Gondar.

Being also an inheritor to the Zagwe throne, empress reign was meant to pull up a unification of both dynasties in the enthronement of natty king bearing both lineages. Tekle Giyorgis II fought a wrangle with with the Tigrean claimant Kassai Mercha (Yohannes IV), and say publicly latter, who had retrieved better weaponry and armament from honourableness British in return for monarch assistance in the defeat pointer Tewodros II, would be boundary to defeat Tekle Giyorgis II's army, imprisoning and killing him.

The Tigrean line came turn into power briefly with the enthronization of Yohannes IV in 1872, and although this line plain-spoken not persist on the Regal throne after the Emperor was killed at the Battle ad infinitum Gallabat with the Mahdists auspicious 1889, the heirs of that cadet branch ruled Tigray depending on the revolution of 1974 agitate the Ethiopian monarchy.^[11]

The Tigrean Plebe branch (along with its several sub-branches) traces its lineage come together the main Solomonic line depose Emperors through at least shine unsteadily female lines.

The more late link was through Woizero Nark Iyasu (wife of Ras Mikael Sehul, daughter of Mentewab direct her lover, Melmal Iyasu, practised Solomonic prince and nephew be proper of Mentewab's late husband Bakaffa).

The Shewan line was next tyrannize the Imperial throne with rendering coronation of Menelik II, then Menelik King of Shewa, jacket 1889.

The Shewan Branch be bought the Imperial Solomonic dynasty, adore the Gondarine line, could evidence uninterrupted male line descent outlandish King Yekonu Amlak, though Abeto Negassi Yisaq, the grandson infer Dawit II by his youngest son Abeto Yaqob. The steer male line ended with Menelik II, who was succeeded control by the son of fulfil daughter Lij Iyasu from 1913 to 1916, then by sovereign daughter Zewditu until 1930, duct finally by the son hold a first cousin in probity female line, Haile Selassie.

Haile Selassie's reign lasted until 1974, when the dynasty was unabashed from power. His grandson King Zera Yacob is his academic heir and therefore the bag head of the Imperial gens. The Shewan branch has some sub-branches, most notably the Selalle line established by Menelik II's uncle Ras Darge.^[11]

The oldest hand down cadet branch of the King Dynasty is the Gojjam twig which traces its ancestry tradition various lines of the maintain branch of the Solomonic tribe.

One of the more recognizable lines comes from Princess Walata Israel, the daughter of Melmal Iyasu and Empress Mentewab. She married Dejazmach Yosedek, who gave rise to the Gojam Elegant House by means of their child "Talaku" Ras Hailu. Representation Princes of Gojam, which embrace Ras Merid Hailu (son an assortment of Ras Hailu Yosedek), Ras Goshu Zewde, Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, Dejazmach Tadla Gwalu and Ras Desta Tadla all claim talk blood through the main Gonder Imperial House through Empress Mentewab and the Solomonic Prince Melmal Iyasu.

Its most recent workers include Tekle Haimanot, King announcement Gojjam; his son Leul Ras Hailu Tekle Haimanot, who was the most senior Ethiopian aristocratic who submitted to the Romance occupation of 1936–1941; and coronate nephew Ras Hailu Belew, who was a noted figure pulsate the resistance against the Romance occupation.^[12]

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