Salomon III

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Salomon III
Emperor of Ethiopia
Reign20 May 1796 – 15 July 1797
PredecessorTekle Giyorgis I
SuccessorYonas
Reign16 June – 25 July 1799
PredecessorTekle Giyorgis I
SuccessorDemetros
DynastyHouse of Solomon
FatherTekle Haymanot II

Salomon III (

Ge'ez: ሰሎሞን) was Emperor of Ethiopia intermittently between 1796 and 1797,[1] and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was the son of Tekle Haymanot II. He may be identical with the Emperor Solomon whom the traveler Henry Salt lists as one of the Emperors still alive at the time of his visit in 1809/1810.[2] E. A. Wallis Budge notes some authorities believe he was the same person as Baeda Maryam II.[3]

Life

He was largely a figurehead, appointed Emperor by Ras Wolde Selassie of Tigray and Ras Mare'ed in 1796. He spent the next year struggling with his rival, and brother, the former Emperor Tekle Giyorgis I; while he was preoccupied with Tekle Giyorgis, Gondar was surrounded in May 1797 by the rebel Balambaras Asserat, who did not have the military strength to enter the capital city, and limited his destruction to burning the property of Tekle Giyorgis in Gondar. Salomon was forced to flee Gondar, and took refuge in Axum where he lived under the protection of Ras Wolde Selassie.[4] The Ras then supported the restoration of Salomon's brother Tekle Giyorgis.[5] Not long afterwards, Salomon was invited to live with his brother as his guest.[6]

In May 1797, while Tekle Giyorgis was campaigning in

Tigray.[9]

Notes

  1. ^ Herbert Weld Blundell, The Royal chronicle of Abyssinia, 1769-1840 (Cambridge: University Press, 1922), p. 461. E. A. Wallis Budge (A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia, 1928 [Oosterhout, the Netherlands: Anthropological Publications, 1970], p. 479) states he ruled for a few days, starting on 20 May.
  2. ^ Henry Salt, A Voyage to Abyssinia and Travels into the Interior of that Country, 1814 (London: Frank Cass, 1958), p. 474
  3. ^ Wallis Budge, A History, p. 479
  4. Richard K.P. Pankhurst
    , History of Ethiopian Towns (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1982), vol. 1 p. 177
  5. ^ Salt states Wolde Selassie "successively espoused the claims of Ayto Solomon, the son of Tecla Haimanot and of Tecla Georgis, his brother, whom, in spite of the combined forces of the chiefs of Amhara, he carried to Gondar and placed on the throne". (A Voyage, p. 254)
  6. ^ Weld Blundell, Royal chronicle, p. 449
  7. ^ Weld Blundell, Royal chronicle, pp. 460f
  8. ^ Weld Blundell, Royal chronicle, p. 462
  9. ^ Weld Blundell, Royal chronicle, p. 471
Regnal titles
Preceded by Emperor of Ethiopia
1796–1797 		Succeeded by
Emperor of Ethiopia
1799 		Succeeded by
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