Yohannes III

John III. (* 1797) was Negest Negus ( Emperor ) of Ethiopia and that the last Ethiopian ruler from the " Gonder " branch of Salomoniden Dynasty. He was the son of Tekle Giyorgis I.. As emperor, he was largely a figurehead, while the real power rested in the hands of the end race or Regent, Ras Ali II, a prince of the ruling Oromo family from the district Yejju. John was forced by Ras Ali to marry his mother, the formidable Empress Mennen Liben Amede. You should dominate both her ​​second husband and her son.

In the numerous wars between Ras Ali and his strongest rivals for power, Haile Maryam of Semien Dejazmach Wube, John was up to 1851 times dethroned in the period of 30 August 1840 and put back on the throne. He changed the person with his cousin Sahle Dengel. For the first time John was deposed in October 1841 because he showed himself as a friend of Dejazmach Wube. He arrived in 1845 briefly back to the office and was promoted in 1850 to unknown manner one last time on the throne.

Budge is represents John as a despicable person, who was only tolerated because he was descended from the Solomonic branch. He was a glutton and a drunkard, and usually drunk. If he was not in his dining room, he could be found in the harem.

Is about his ultimate destiny, as well as many details of his reign, nothing is known. As Mennen on June 18, 1847 by Kassa of Qwara ( later Theodore II ) was defeated on the northern shore of Lake Tana, John said to have been the prevailing Kaiser. Spot captured John and Mennen and swapped the two with Ras Ali against the title Dejazmach and the areas of the late Ras Kinfu in Gojam.

According to another source is cash seized ultimately the imperial throne. John came back voluntarily, under the condition that the new emperor would force him not with his hated wife, Empress Mennen, to reunite. Then John disappeared from the scene and died in poverty at the beginning of the 1870s. At the end of his life he had converted to Catholicism and was Napoléon III. asked in a letter to financial support.

Budgeting leads to another story-that John ended his life much less memorable. Thus he died in 1851 from an acute stomach upset and was replaced by Sahle Dengel one last time on the throne. This story seems credible, since Sahle Dengel was Emperor 1855 until shortly before the coronation of Theodore on February 11.