Contemporary Portuguese depiction of Gelawdewos receiving the Latin Patriarch Andrés de Oviedo
Emperor of Ethiopia
Reign
3 September 1540 – 23 March 1559
Predecessor
Dawit II
Successor
Menas
Born
1521/1522 Amhara, Ethiopian Empire
Died
29 March 1559(1559-03-29) (aged 37–38) Fatagar, Ethiopian Empire
Issue
Sabana Giyorgis[1] Mashihawit[1]
Names
Mar Gelawdewos
Regnal name
Atsnaf Sagad I
Dynasty
House of Solomon
Father
Dawit II
Mother
Seble Wongel
Religion
Ethiopian Orthodox
Galawdewos (Ge'ez: ገላውዴዎስ, 1521/1522 – 23 March 1559), also known as Mar Gelawdewos[2] (Amharic: ማር ገላውዴዎስ), was Emperor of Ethiopia from 3 September 1540 until his death in 1559, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. His throne name was Atsnaph Sagad I (Ge'ez: አጽናፍ ሰገድ). A male line descendant of medieval Amhara kings, he was a younger son of Dawit II and Seble Wongel.[3][4]
^ abBudge, E. A. Wallis (1928). A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia (Volume 2). London: Methuen & Co. p. 356.
^Conzelman (1895). Le chronique de Galawdewos. Paris. p. 135.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^Danver, Steven L (2015). Native Peoples of the World: An Encyclopedia of Groups, Cultures and Contemporary Issues. Routledge. p. 16. ISBN 9781317464006.
^Remedius Prutky states that Gelawdewos had a son, Na'od; this son is not mentioned in his Royal Chronicle. J. H. Arrowsmith-Brown, translator and editor, Prutky's Travels to Ethiopia and Other Countries (London: Hakluyt Society, 1991), p. 112 and note.
the battle, and Emperor Gelawdewos learned he was hastening towards him, unaware that the battle had already been lost. Gelawdewos sent out a party who successfully...
the people sold was Menas the son of Emperor Dawit II. In 1543, Emperor Gelawdewos finally defeated the army of Adal and killed its leader, with the help...
area as the province of Habesh. Yeshaq sought the assistance of emperor Gelawdewos, reinforced by a large Abyssinian army, he recaptured Debarwa, taking...
death in 1563, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was a brother of Gelawdewos and the son of Emperor Dawit II. According to a genealogy collected by...
Harar led by Nur ibn Mujahid, and the Ethiopian Empire under Emperor Gelawdewos. The Ethiopian Emperor was killed by Adal forces in this battle. Mohammed...
of the area was Christian. The reign of Lebna Dengel and his successor Gelawdewos were marked by wars between the Ethiopian Empire and the Muslim Adal Sultanate...
by an unknown assailant at Debre Damo. Dawit was succeeded by his son Gelawdewos, as his son Menas had been captured by Ahmad a year before Dawit died...
Baeda Maryam I Eskender (Kwestantinos II) Amda Seyon II Na'od Dawit II Gelawdewos Menas Sarsa Dengel Yaqob Za Dengel Yaqob Susenyos I Gondarine period (1632–1769)...
Emperor Gelawdewos and the forces of Garad Emar, a lieutenant of Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi. According to Ethiopian sources, Gelawdewos was defeated...
old son, Gelawdewos, who faced a desperate situation but rallied his soldiers and people to resist the Muslim invasion. By 1540 Gelawdewos led a small...
Barakat ibn Umar Din. In the meantime, Gelawdewos, with a larger army attacked emir nur with smaller army . Gelawdewos was defeated and killed by Nur at the...
Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi, after which it was rebuilt by the Emperor Gelawdewos, then further rebuilt and enlarged by Fasilides during the 17th century...
serfs", similar to the serfs in Ethiopia during feudal times. Emperor Gelawdewos, however, campaigned in the south as a result of those attacks. According...
husband was killed and their eldest son captured by the forces of Emperor Gelawdewos (the son of Emperor Lebna Dengle), del Wambara successfully negotiated...
Beta Israel then switched their alliance and began supporting Emperor Gelawdewos against the Muslim invaders. The Christian Ethiopians did succeed eventually...
headquarters at Lake Tana. The surviving Portuguese were able to meet up with Gelawdewos and his army at Siemen. The Emperor did not hesitate to take the offensive...
Islam spread further in the region. Portugal responded by aiding king Gelawdewos with Portuguese soldiers and muskets. Though the Ottomans responded with...
Baeda Maryam I Eskender (Kwestantinos II) Amda Seyon II Na'od Dawit II Gelawdewos Menas Sarsa Dengel Yaqob Za Dengel Yaqob Susenyos I Gondarine period (1632–1769)...
towns. The young Emperor, Gelawdewos, made his way to confront him and Abbas rushed with his army to meet the Emperor. Gelawdewos was entirely victorious...
by missionaries of the Catholic Church in the 1500s, the emperor Saint Gelawdewos wrote his Confession, an apologia of traditional beliefs and practices...
the Bahr Negus Yeshaq. After the death of Imam Ahmad in 1543, Emperor Gelawdewos immediately reestablished imperial suzerainty over the Eritrean highlands...
the Abyssinian–Adal war of the 1500s. It was again rebuilt by Emperor Gelawdewos (completed by his brother and successor Emperor Minas) and Emperor Fasilides...
Baeda Maryam I Eskender (Kwestantinos II) Amda Seyon II Na'od Dawit II Gelawdewos Menas Sarsa Dengel Yaqob Za Dengel Yaqob Susenyos I Gondarine period (1632–1769)...
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