Yekuno Amlak
| Yekuno Amlak | |||||
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| Emperor of Ethiopia | |||||
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| Reign | 10 August 1270 – 19 June 1285 | ||||
| Predecessor | Yetbarak | ||||
| Successor | Yagbe'u Seyon | ||||
| Died | 19 June 1285 | ||||
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| House | Solomonic dynasty | ||||
| Religion | Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church | ||||
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| Tasfa Iyasus |
Emperor Yekuno Amlak (Amharic: ይኵኖ አምላክ?; throne name Tasfa Iyasus) was nəgusä nägäst (r. 10 August 1270 – 19 June 1285) of Ethiopia and restorer of the Solomonic dynasty. He traced his ancestry through his father, Tasfa Iyasus, to Dil Na'od, the last King of Axum.
Much of what is known about Yekuno Amlak is based on oral traditions and medieval hagiographies. Yekuno Amlak was educated at Lake Hayq's Istifanos Monastery near Amba Sel, where later medieval hagiographies state Saint Tekle Haymanot raised and educated him, and helped him to depose the last King of the Zagwe Dynasty. Earlier hagiographies, however, state that it was Iyasus Mo'a, the abbot of Istifanos Monastery in Lake Hayq, who helped him achieve power. G.W.B. Huntingford explains this discrepancy by pointing out Istifanos had once been the premier monastery of Ethiopia, but Tekle Haymanot's Debre Libanos eventually eclipsed Istifanos, and from the reign of Amda Seyon it became the custom to appoint the abbot of Debre Libanos Ichege, or secular head of the Ethiopian Church. However, neither of these traditions is contemporary with any of the individuals involved.
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