Yohannes III
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Yohannes III (c. 1797 – c. 1873) was
Life
During the various wars between Ras Ali and his leading rival for power,
Budge portrays Yohannes as a contemptible character, "only tolerated because he belonged to the Solomonic line. He was a glutton and a wine bibber, and was usually drunk, and when he was not in his banquet hall he was in his
His ultimate fate is unclear—as well as many of the details of his reign. He is said to have been ruling as Emperor 18 June 1847 when Empress Mennen was defeated
After this, Yohannes lived as a commoner. In 1856, the Catholics in Ethiopia tried to interest him in returning to the throne, but he was far more interested in undertaking a pilgrimage to
Notes
- ^ E. A. Wallis Budge, A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia, 1928 (Oosterhout, the Netherlands: Anthropological Publications, 1970), p. 483. He also states that Yohannes died in 1851 "during an attack of acute indigestion"; it may be that, in one of his frequent act of carelessness, Budge confused Yohannes with his relative Sahle Dengel and these vices properly belong to Sahle Dengel.
- ^ Donald Crummey, Priests and Politicians, 1972 (Hollywood: Tsehai, 2007), p. 79
- ^ Mordechai Abir, Ethiopia: The Era of the princes (London: Longmans, 1968), p. 128f
- ^ Crummey, Priests and Politicians, p. 100.
- ^ Hormuzd Rassam, in Narrative of the British Mission to Theodore, King of Abyssinia (London, 1869), vol. 2 p. 94
- ^ Translated with facsimiles of the original text in Sven Rubenson (editor) Internal Rivalries and Foreign Threats: 1869–1879 (Addis Ababa: University Press, 2000), p. 14
- ^ Translated with facsimiles of the original text in Internal Rivalries, p. 187