Zewditu I

Empress Zauditu (also: Zawditu, Amharic ዘውዲቱ ) (* April 29, 1876, † April 2, 1930 ) was the first monarch of Ethiopia.

She was the eldest daughter of the later Emperor Menelik II (1889-1913 Emperor of Ethiopia ) and his first wife Woizero Abechi. 1882, she married Araya Selassie Yohannis, son and heir of Emperor Yohannes IV ( 1872-1889 Emperor of Ethiopia). It was a political marriage. Araya Selassie died in 1888 Yohannis and Zauditu married twice more after that. Your fourth marriage she went with Gugsa wave, the nephew of her stepmother Taytu, the second wife of Menelik II, a.

On September 27, 1916 she became empress. In 1928, she had a co-emperor, Haile Selassie ( Tafari ), the de facto had the power in Ethiopia.

On March 31, 1930 Gugsa wave killed. He had tried to start a rebellion against Haile Selassie in Begemder, and was defeated and killed at the Battle of Anchem of the modernized Ethiopian army.

Zauditu suffered from diabetes. She died two days after her husband.