Newaya Krestos (throne name Sayfa Ar`ed) was nəgusä nägäst (1344 - 1372) of Ethiopia, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. The Emperor ( Ge'ez: ንጉሠ ነገሥት nəgusä nägäst " King of Kings " of Ethiopia was the hereditary NOTE This intro is the result of careful NPOV work Please do not make potentially controversial edits to it without first discussing on the talk page The Solomonic dynasty is the traditional royal house of Ethiopia, claiming descent from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, who is said He was the oldest son of Amda Seyon I. Amda Seyon (also Amde Tsiyon and other variants Ge'ez ዐምደ ፡ ጽዮን ʿamda ṣiyōn, Amharic āmde ṣiyōn, "Pillar
On the death of his father, Newaya Krestos ("Vessel of Christ") had agreed to the entreaties of Abuna Yaqob to recall the monks his father had exiled and live a monogamous life unlike his polygamous predecessors; but he went back on his word, marrying three women. Abun (in Europe erroneously known as Abuna, which is the status constructus form used when a name follows Ge'ez አቡነ ’abuna Monogamy is the custom or condition of having only one mate in a Relationship, thus forming a Couple. When Abuna Yaqob and the monastic leaders protested, the Emperor sent the Abuna back to Egypt, and exiled the monks to the southern parts of his kingdom. [1]
During his reign Ali ibn Sabr ad-Din of the Walashma dynasty revolted. Ali ibn Sabr ad-Din (flourished after 1344) was the son of Sabr ad-Din I. The Walashma dynasty was a Muslim noble family who ruled Ifat - parts of whatis now eastern Ethiopia, Djibouti, and western Somalia In response, Newaya Krestos campaigned along the eastern frontier of Ethiopia in the territories of Adal and Ifat. The Adal Sultanate ( Somali: Adaal, Ge'ez: አዳል ʾAdāl, Arabic: عدل (c Ifat may refer to Ifat Sultanate Due to lack of support from his subjects, Ali ad-Din's revolt was unsuccessful, and he was captured with all of his sons, effectively destroying the Sultanate of Ifat as an independent state. Newaya Krestos imprisoned Ali ad-Din and all of his sons except for Ahmad, whom the emperor made governor of Ifat. Ahmad ibn Ali (flourished mid 14th century) was the son of Jamal ad-Din I. However, after eight years Ali was released from prison and returned to power; Ahmad and his sons were excluded from power, and it took the direct intervention of the Emperor for Ahmad to obtain a position over a single district. [2]
Despite his earlier actions against the Ethiopian Church, towards the end of his reign he aggressively helped the Patriarch of Alexandria Mark IV, who had been imprisoned by Al-Salih, the Sultan of Egypt. The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (in transliterated Amharic: Yäityop'ya ortodoks täwahedo bétäkrestyan) is an Oriental The Patriarch of Alexandria is the Archbishop of Alexandria and Cairo, Egypt. Pope Mark IV of Alexandria was the Coptic Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St Sultan of Egypt was the status held by the rulers of Egypt after the establishment of the Ayyubid Dynasty of Saladin in 1174 until the Ottoman conquest One step Newaya Krestos took was to imprison the Egyptian merchants in his kingdom; the other was to march on Egypt at the head of a numerous army. This article is about the country of Egypt For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Egypt topics. Tradition states that Patriarch Mark was freed and sent a delegation to convince the Emperor to return to his kingdom. Newaya Krestos did return, but he kept the delegation with him as his unwilling guests. [3]
Newaya Krestos is also credited for rebuilding the ancient church Debre Igziabher that overooks Lake Hayq. Lake Hayq or Lake Haik ( Ge'ez ሐይቅ hāyḳ, Amh "lake" is a freshwater Lake of Ethiopia. This church was looted and burned by Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi in 1531. Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi (c 1506 - February 21, 1543) ("the Conqueror" was an Imam and General of Adal [4]
Notes
- ^ Taddesse Tamrat, Church and State in Ethiopia (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), pp. 117f.
- ^ Taddesse Tamrat, Church and State, pp 146-8; E. A. Wallis Budge, A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia, 1928 (Oosterhout, the Netherlands: Anthropological Publications, 1970), p. 299.
- ^ Taddesse Tamrat, Church and State, pp. 253f; Paul E. Henze, Layers of Time: A History of Ethiopia (New York: Palgrave, 2000), p. 67.
- ^ Sihab ad-Din Ahmad bin 'Abd al-Qader, Futuh al-Habasa: The conquest of Ethiopia, translated by Paul Lester Stenhouse with annotations by Richard Pankhurst (Hollywood: Tsehai, 2003), p. 265.
| Preceded by Amda Seyon I |
Emperor of Ethiopia | Succeeded by Newaya Maryam |
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