Yohannes II.

Yohannes II ( Amharic ዮሓንስ, also called John II, Throne name Adyam Sagad IV ) (* 1699, † October 18, 1769 in Gondar ) was from May 7 to October 18, 1769 Negest Negus ( Emperor ) of Ethiopia.

Biography

He was a son of Emperor Iyassu I and the brother of Emperor Tekle Haymanot I., David III. and Bakaffa. Yohannes was born into the ruling Solomonic dynasty. As a possible pretender to the throne he spent, like other imperial princes, the greater part of his life in prison mountain Wehni Amba. 1725 undertook Yohannes attempted to escape from Wehni Amba. The then emperor, his notorious for his cruelty brother Bekaffa left, as punishment chop off a hand. On the consequences of that punishment Yohannes almost died. After his recovery Yohannnes spent his time in Wehni Amba with theological studies, writing songs and discussions with scholars. Politically Yohannes was completely uninterested.

Since about 1750 there were in Ethiopia to increasingly violent internal political disputes, which were associated with an ever-increasing weakening of the imperial power. The real rulers in Ethiopia at the time was the governor and governor of Gondar, Ras Mikael Sehul, of the Emperor at his discretion on and put down.

After the assassination of the Emperor Iyoas Ras Mikael was looking for a low as possible candidates for the imperial throne to formally ensure the cohesion of the empire. His choice fell on the already aged Yohannes, he had her brought in May 1769 against the resistance of Wehni Amba to Gondar to present before the Assembly the highest secular and ecclesiastical Würderträger Ethiopia as Emperor candidates. Although rejected the Assembly Yohannes because of its apparent inability and his due punishment disability from first. But with the pledge to protect the new emperor on boarding of the horse personally the stirrup, Ras Mikael was finally able to convince the Assembly of the dignitaries of his plans. Yohannes Yohannes II was proclaimed as the new Emperor of Ethiopia on 7 May in 1769. To further consolidate his own position of power Ras Mikael joined his family with the imperial family through the marriage of his granddaughter Waletta Sellasie with the aged emperor.

Even as emperor Yohannes II devoted exclusively to the study of books and refused to show up in public, to participate in the affairs of state and to stay in the army. He also called constantly to be brought back to Wehni Amba. Thus the Emperor Ras Mikael was politically inconvenient, and so he gave the order to his assassination. On October 18, 1769 Yohannes II was poisoned at breakfast.

Ras Mikael continued his intrigues by, began the minor son of Yohannes, Tekle Haymanot II as the new emperor.

Yohannes was married and had 4 children.

• Kaiser ( Ethiopia)
• Born in 1699
• Died in 1769
• Man