(1895-02-04)4 February 1895 Dessie, Wollo, Ethiopian Empire
Died
25 November 1935(1935-11-25) (aged 40) Addis Ababa, Ethiopian Empire
Burial
Compound of St Markos Church
Spouse
Seble Wongel Hailu
Names
Kifle Yaqob (baptismal name)
Dynasty
House of Solomon (Wollo Branch)
Father
Mikael Ali
Mother
Woizero Shewaregga Menelik
Religion
Ethiopian Orthodox Christian [Unconfirmed allegations of conversion to Islam]
Lij Iyasu (Ge'ez: ልጅ ኢያሱ; 4 February 1895[a] – 25 November 1935) was the designated Emperor of Ethiopia from 1913 to 1916. His baptismal name was Kifle Yaqob (ክፍለ ያዕቆብ kəflä y’aqob). Ethiopian emperors traditionally chose their regnal name on the day they were crowned,[b] and since he was never crowned, he is usually referred to as Lij Iyasu, "Lij" meaning child, especially one born of royal blood.[c]
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LijIyasu (Ge'ez: ልጅ ኢያሱ; 4 February 1895 – 25 November 1935) was the designated Emperor of Ethiopia from 1913 to 1916. His baptismal name was Kifle Yaqob...
Prince (Abeto Lij) Girma Yohannes Iyasu (born 1961) is the Iyasuist claimant to the throne of Ethiopian Empire. He is also known by the name Girma Amente...
aristocrat and the second wife of the uncrowned Emperor of Ethiopia, LijIyasu. Sabla Wangel Hailu is frequently confused with her 16th-century ancestor...
Gondar by Empress Zewditu in 1917, as recognition for his role in deposing LijIyasu. Of Amhara descent. Welde Giyorgis was the second son of Woizero Ayahilush...
1832) LijIyasu of Ethiopia (1913 – 1916) (uncrowned and excommunicated by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, not referred to publicly as Iyasu V) Three...
Ethiopian Empire between the supporters of Empress regent Zewditu and LijIyasu on 27 October 1916, and resulted in victory for Zewditu. Paul B. Henze...
of the Ethiopian Empire. He was the father of the "uncrowned" Emperor LijIyasu, and the grandfather of Empress Menen, wife of Emperor Haile Selassie...
In June 1916, a dynastic conflict emerged when the uncrowned Emperor, LijIyasu, was alleged to have converted to Islam under the influence of the Ottoman...
long after his death, serving in their posts through the brief reign of LijIyasu (whom they helped depose) and into the reign of Empress Zewditu. Menelik...
Solomon of Israel and the Queen of Sheba (both LijIyasu and Haile Selassie were in the female line, LijIyasu through his mother Shewarega Menelik, and Haile...
a reward". During the deposing of LijIyasu, Fitawrari Habte Giyorgis led the army against forces loyal to LijIyasu. He was the commanding General during...
1913, and LijIyasu, the son of Zewditu's half-sister Shewa Regga, who had been publicly declared heir apparent in 1909, took the throne. Iyasu considered...
their families broken up by sales. When Menelik II died, his grandson, LijIyasu, succeeded to the throne but soon lost support because of his Muslim ties...
to 1911 and LijIyasu from 1911 to 1913. Never officially crowned as Emperor. Deposed by nobility with the sanction of the Church. LijIyasu was never referred...
heir, LijIyasu married Sabla Wangel Hailu, Hailu's daughter, and Iyasu became Hailu's son-in-law. In 1913, Nəgusä Nägäst Menelik died and Iyasu should...
conversion to Islam. Tekle Hawariat joined in the denunciation of LijIyasu as an apostate. LijIyasu responded by raising an army in Harar, and marched towards...
Damtew supported Tafari Makonnen against LijIyasu. Tafari Makonnen was the future Emperor Haile Selassie I. LijIyasu was deposed but escaped. In 1920, Desta...
dissolved. In 1914, after having been appointed "Negus of Zion" by his son LijIyasu, Mikael of Wollo, in consideration of the hostile feelings this provoked...
mother was the daughter of the King Mikael of Wollo and her half-uncle was LijIyasu. According to both published and unpublished reports, the then Woizero...
proclaimed as Ethiopia's future Balemulu Enderase (Regent Plenipotentiary) to LijIyasu, upon the latter's appointment as heir to the throne by Emperor Menelik...
other being Liberia) and a major power in the Horn of Africa. Its ruler, LijIyasu, was widely suspected of harbouring pro-Islamic sentiments and being sympathetic...
and the nobility of Shoa and Tigray, along with the Wollo relatives of LijIyasu conspired to remove her from state responsibility. In 1910, she was forced...
LijIyasu. Tessema Nadew, regent of Ethiopia, reappointed Mulugeta as dejazmach over Gimira to the west Jimma. In 1916, after the deposition of Lij Iyasu...
would come to depose LijIyasu has been discussed extensively, particularly in Haile Selassie's own detailed account of the matter. Iyasu was the designated...
Retrieved 28 February 2017. Ficquet, Éloi (2014). The Life and Times of LïjIyasu of Ethiopia: New Insights. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 185. ISBN 978-3-643-90476-8...
Somali population of the town was decimated following the overthrow of LijIyasu by Abyssinian militias. The indigenous Harari natives who once were majority...
records LijIyasu wanting to enter into an alliance with the Gadabuursi, in his book British policy towards Ethiopia 1909–1919: "The Prince (LijIyasu) was...
the Empress Taytu made a serious effort to prevent the accession of LijIyasu as Menelik's successor. This led to the rumor that Empress Taytu and her...
Ras Mikael and his son. After the defeat of his father Negus Mikael, LijIyasu took refuge in Dessie beginning on 8 November 1916 while unsuccessfully...
up in the palace of Emperor Menelik II along with Menelik's grandson, LijIyasu. In 1919, Dejazmach Getachew Abate was sent to Italy to congratulate King...
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