Iyasou Ier of Ethiopia

Iyasou Ier (born in 1654 and died in 1706) was Négus of Ethiopia of 1682 with 1706 under the name of Adyam Sagad Ier .

Biography

It succeeds his father Yohannès I {{er}}.

Iyasou is the last powerful sovereign whom knows Ethiopia before falling into one century and half from disorders. Its authoritative reign is marked out synods where the monks of the various tendencies discuss on natures of the Christ. The king is sometimes obliged to repress their heats.

Iyasou carries out forwardings against the Chanqalla of the Western borders and against the Galla. Those of the Guibié, pagan, took along in slavery several thousands of Christians and sacrifice some to the occasion to alleviate their gods. The Ethiopian troops cut them in part. Their chief Dilamo is decapitated. With the Choa, where he visits the sanctuary of Tédbaba-Maryam, Iyasou shows its force to avoid employing it. It reduces to the respect the naïb established by the Turks with Arkiko, who wanted to take a tax over the present intended for the sovereign, by removing its supply from Ethiopia.

Ethiopia is then particularly prosperous thanks to the frequency of the caravans sent towards the ports of the Érythrée and by the Sennar, towards the Egypt.

Iyasou makes build with Gondar the sanctuary of Debra-Berhan (Convent of the Light). It builds in Gondar a second luxurious palate, decorated ivory with gilded ceilings, woodworks decorated with paintings, high mirrors. Its reign is marked by ostentation and great huntings in which it takes an active part (it is wounded by a buffalo).

Iyasou makes revise Fétha-Nagast, which is used as code with the kingdom. The legal rules are sophisticated.

In 1706, the négus Iyasou the Large one must abdicate in front of the intrigues of his/her son Takla Haïmanot. It is withdrawn in a monastery on an island of the Lac Tanned. A few months later, Takla Haïmanot, which fear its return on the throne, the fact of assassinating: cut down of a rifle shot, it is completed with the lance. Its brutal death the fact of regarding as saint and martyr. Ethiopia sinks in anarchy.

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