Yonas of Ethiopia

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Yonas or Jonah (died May, 1813) was nəgusä nägäst (18 August 1797 – 4 January 1798) of Ethiopia. He was the son of Letezum.

He was a figurehead, proclaimed Emperor by Ras Isra'el of Begemder, and deposed by Gugsa, a chieftain of the Yejju Oromo.[1] By 1802, he was a prisoner in Lasta.[2] Nathaniel Pearce reports that he was living in exile in Gojjam at the time of his death, and died penniless "without leaving sufficient even to purchase a coffin to receive ... [his] remains, or money enough for fettart or toscar."[3]

[edit] Bibliography

  1. ^ Wallis Budge, E. A. [1928] (1970). A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia. Oosterhout, the Netherlands: Anthropological Publications. 
  2. ^ H. Weld Blundell, The Royal chronicle of Abyssinia, 1769-1840 (Cambridge: University Press, 1922), p. 471
  3. ^ Pearce, Nathaniel (1831). in J.J. Halls: The Life and Adventures of Nathaniel Pearce.  Pearce heard of Yonas' death on 7 June, but did not record the exact date it occurred.
Preceded by
Salomon III		 Emperor of Ethiopia
1797–1798		 Succeeded by
Tekle Giyorgis I


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