Baeda Maryam III

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Baeda Maryam III
Emperor of Ethiopia
ReignApril 1826
PredecessorGigar
SuccessorGigar
Names
Bida Maryam
HouseHouse of Solomon
ReligionEthiopian Orthodox Tewahedo

Baeda Maryam III, also known as Bida Maryam, was Emperor of Ethiopia for a few days in April 1826. Baeda Maryam was a figurehead, set on the throne by Dejazmach Haile Maryam, the governor of Semien. Elisabeth-Dorothea Hecht has argued that this Baeda Maryam is the same person as Baeda Maryam II, noting that the information that the earlier Baeda Maryam had died in combat in 1787 is wrong.[1]

Reign

According to the Royal chronicles of Abyssinia, Dajazmach Haile Maryam led a campaign south from Semien and held Mount Manta for 15 days to make Baeda Maryam Emperor. When Ras Yimam cut short his expedition in Gojjam to oppose Dejazmach Haile Maryam, he found that the Dejazmach had seized control of the fords of the Abay River, so Ras Yimam circled west of Lake Tana through Dengel Ber to reach Dejazmach Haile Maryam in Dembiya. Surprised, Dejazmach Haile Maryam retreated to Weldebba where Ras Yimam with his brother Marye caught up with him and fought him for three days. On 6 January 1827, the Dejazmach retreated again to Wegera, and escaped from the brothers.[2]

Baeda Maryam lived for several years after his deposition, as the missionary Samuel Gobat mentions that he met Baeda Maryam, his wife and children in Adigrat during June 1831.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ Hecht, "A Note to the List of Emperors of Ethiopia Bä'edä-Maryam II (1795-1826)", Journal of Ethiopian Studies, 7 (1969), pp. 19-20
  2. ^ H. Weld Blundell, The Royal chronicle of Abyssinia, 1769-1840 (Cambridge: University Press, 1922), p. 485
  3. ^ Samuel Gobat, Journal of Three years' Residence in Abyssinia, 1850, M.W. Dodd, p. 394
Regnal titles
Preceded by Emperor of Ethiopia
1826 		Succeeded by


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