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'''Yeshaq I''' ({{lang-gez|ይሥሐቅ}}), throne name: '''Gabra Masqal II''' (Ge'ez: ገብረ መስቀል) was [[Emperor of Ethiopia]] from 1414 to 1429/1430, and a member of the [[Solomonic dynasty]]. He was the second son of Emperor [[Dawit I]].<ref name=Salvadore37/> |
'''Yeshaq I''' ({{lang-gez|ይሥሐቅ}}), throne name: '''Gabra Masqal II''' (Ge'ez: ገብረ መስቀል) was [[Emperor of Ethiopia]] from 1414 to 1429/1430, and a member of the [[Solomonic dynasty]]. He was the second son of Emperor [[Dawit I]].<ref name=Salvadore37/> |
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==Ancestry== |
==Ancestry== |
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Of [[Amhara people|Amhara]] lineage. Yeshaq I was a son of Emperor [[Dawit I]], probably by [[Seyon |
Of [[Amhara people|Amhara]] lineage. Yeshaq I was a son of Emperor [[Dawit I]], probably by [[Seyon Mogasa]], one of Dawit's wives.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kessler |first=David Francis |author-link=David F. Kessler |date=2012 |title=The Falashas: A Short History of the Ethiopian Jews |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=54YZtJQB10cC&pg=PA94 |location= |publisher=Routledge |page=94 |isbn=9781136304552}}</ref><ref name=Aethiopica59/> |
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Yeshaq had several notable brothers among them Emperor [[Tewodros I]] who he succeeded in 1414. His younger brothers included Emperor [[Takla Maryam]] and Emperor [[Zara Yaqob]].<ref name=Salvadore37>{{cite book |last=Salvadore |first=Matteo |author-link= |date=2016 |title=The African Prester John and the Birth of Ethiopian-European Relations, 1402-1555 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BQ5qDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA37 |location= |publisher=Routledge |page=37 |isbn=9781317045465}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Salvadore |first=Matteo |author-link= |date=2016 |title=The African Prester John and the Birth of Ethiopian-European Relations, 1402-1555 |
Yeshaq had several notable brothers among them Emperor [[Tewodros I]] who he succeeded in 1414. His younger brothers included Emperor [[Takla Maryam]] and Emperor [[Zara Yaqob]].<ref name=Salvadore37>{{cite book |last=Salvadore |first=Matteo |author-link= |date=2016 |title=The African Prester John and the Birth of Ethiopian-European Relations, 1402-1555 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BQ5qDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA37 |location= |publisher=Routledge |page=37 |isbn=9781317045465}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Salvadore |first=Matteo |author-link= |date=2016 |title=The African Prester John and the Birth of Ethiopian-European Relations, 1402-1555 |
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==Sources== |
==Sources== |
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Much of the details of Yeshaq's reign is found in the works of the medieval Arab historian [[Al-Maqrizi]] as well as in scattered [[Geez]] sources, and in an early [[Amharic]] poetic text. The overall image of Yeshaq which emerges from the sources is one of a powerful and confrontational leader who fought his enemies, both political and religious, on several fronts.<ref name=Aethiopica59>{{cite book |editor-last1=Bausi |editor-first1=Alessandro |editor-last2=Uhlig |editor-first2=Siegbert |date=2014 |title=Encyclopaedia Aethiopica - Vol. 5, Y - Z, Supplementa, Addenda et Corrigenda, Maps, Index |
Much of the details of Yeshaq's reign is found in the works of the medieval Arab historian [[Al-Maqrizi]] as well as in scattered [[Geez]] sources, and in an early [[Amharic]] poetic text. The overall image of Yeshaq which emerges from the sources is one of a powerful and confrontational Christian leader who fought his enemies, both political and religious, on several fronts.<ref name=Aethiopica59>{{cite book |editor-last1=Bausi |editor-first1=Alessandro |editor-last2=Uhlig |editor-first2=Siegbert |date=2014 |title=Encyclopaedia Aethiopica - Vol. 5, Y - Z, Supplementa, Addenda et Corrigenda, Maps, Index |publisher=Harrasowitz |location=Wiesbaden |pages=59–60 |url=https://www.librarycat.org/lib/newcrossbooks/item/112761183 |access-date= |isbn=9783447067409 |issn= |oclc= }}</ref> |
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==Reign== |
==Reign== |
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Yeshaq's reign was marked by a revolt of the [[Beta Israel]]. In response, the Emperor marched into [[Wegera (woreda)|Wegera]], where he defeated the rebels at Kossoge some {{convert|30|km}} north of [[Gondar]], thereby ending the revolt. He also had the church Debre Yeshaq built there to commemorate his victory.<ref>James Bruce, ''Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile'' (1805 edition), vol. 3, p. 97</ref> Yeshaq also invaded the [[Shanqella]] region beyond [[Agawmeder]], and to the southeast he fought against |
Yeshaq's reign was marked by a revolt of the [[Beta Israel]]. In response, the Emperor marched into [[Wegera (woreda)|Wegera]], where he defeated the rebels at Kossoge some {{convert|30|km}} north of [[Gondar]], thereby ending the revolt. He also had the church Debre Yeshaq built there to commemorate his victory.<ref>James Bruce, ''Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile'' (1805 edition), vol. 3, p. 97</ref> Yeshaq also invaded the [[Shanqella]] region beyond [[Agawmeder]], and to the southeast he fought against [[Mansur ad-Din of Adal|Mansur ad-Din]] and [[Jamal ad-Din II]]. |
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Yeshaq, according to the Islamic historian [[al-Maqrizi]], hired a group of [[Mamluk]]s led by al-Tabingha to train his army in gunnery and swordfighting. This is the earliest reference to firearms (Arabic ''naft'') in Ethiopia.<ref>[[Richard Pankhurst]], "Linguistic and Cultural Data on the Penetration of Fire-Arms into Ethiopia", ''Journal of Ethiopian Studies'', Vol. 9, No. 1 (1971), pp. 47–82.</ref> About the same time another Egyptian visitor, a [[Copts|Copt]], "reorganized the kingdom," according to al-Maqrizi, "and collected so much wealth for the Hati [the Emperor] that he enjoyed the king's authority." This unnamed Copt also introduced the practice of the Emperor dressing in "splendid" clothes and carrying a cross, which made him stand out from his subjects.<ref>[[Richard Pankhurst (academic)|Richard Pankhurst]], ''The Ethiopians: A History'' (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998), pp. 75f</ref> |
Yeshaq, according to the Islamic historian [[al-Maqrizi]], hired a group of [[Mamluk]]s led by al-Tabingha to train his army in gunnery and swordfighting, they also taught him the secrets of [[Greek fire]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Morié |first=Louis-J. Auteur du texte |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k58079963 |title=Histoire de l'Éthiopie (Nubie et Abyssinie) : depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours. L'Abyssinie (Éthiopie moderne) / par L.-J. Morié... |date=1904 |pages=215 |language=EN}}</ref> This is the earliest reference to firearms (Arabic ''naft'') in Ethiopia.<ref>[[Richard Pankhurst (politician)|Richard Pankhurst]], "Linguistic and Cultural Data on the Penetration of Fire-Arms into Ethiopia", ''Journal of Ethiopian Studies'', Vol. 9, No. 1 (1971), pp. 47–82.</ref> About the same time another Egyptian visitor, a [[Copts|Copt]], "reorganized the kingdom," according to al-Maqrizi, "and collected so much wealth for the Hati [the Emperor] that he enjoyed the king's authority." This unnamed Copt also introduced the practice of the Emperor dressing in "splendid" clothes and carrying a cross, which made him stand out from his subjects.<ref>[[Richard Pankhurst (academic)|Richard Pankhurst]], ''The Ethiopians: A History'' (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998), pp. 75f</ref> |
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Further, [[George Wynn Brereton Huntingford]] suggests that it was during Yeshaq's reign that the rulers of Ethiopia ceased having permanent capitals; instead, their courts were held in their encampments as they progressed around their realm.<ref>Huntingford, (translator and editor), ''The Glorious Victories of 'Amda Seyon King of Ethiopia'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965), p. 16 n.</ref> |
Further, [[George Wynn Brereton Huntingford]] suggests that it was during Yeshaq's reign that the rulers of Ethiopia ceased having permanent capitals; instead, their courts were held in their encampments as they progressed around their realm.<ref>Huntingford, (translator and editor), ''The Glorious Victories of 'Amda Seyon King of Ethiopia'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965), p. 16 n.</ref> |
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Yeshaq made the earliest known contact from post-Axumite Ethiopia to a [[Europe]]an ruler. He sent a letter by two dignitaries to [[Alfonso V of Aragon]], which reached the king in 1428, proposing an alliance against the [[Muslims]] and would be sealed by a dual marriage, that would require [[Peter of Aragon, Count of Alburquerque|Infante Peter]] to bring a group of artisans to Ethiopia, where he would marry Yeshaq's daughter. It is not clear how or if Alfonso responded to this letter, although in a letter that reached Yeshaq's successor [[Zara Yaqob]] in 1450, Alfonso wrote that he would be happy to send artisans to Ethiopia if their safe arrival could be guaranteed, for on a previous occasion a party of thirteen of his subjects traveling to Ethiopia had all perished.<ref>[[O. G. S. Crawford]] (editor), ''Ethiopian Itineraries, circa 1400–1524'' ([[Cambridge]]: the Hakluyt Society, 1958), pp. 12f.</ref> |
Yeshaq made the earliest known contact from post-Axumite Ethiopia to a [[Europe]]an ruler. He sent a letter by two dignitaries to [[Alfonso V of Aragon]], which reached the king in 1428, proposing an alliance against the [[Muslims]] and would be sealed by a dual marriage, that would require [[Peter of Aragon, Count of Alburquerque|Infante Peter]] to bring a group of artisans to Ethiopia, where he would marry Yeshaq's daughter. It is not clear how or if Alfonso responded to this letter, although in a letter that reached Yeshaq's successor [[Zara Yaqob]] in 1450, Alfonso wrote that he would be happy to send artisans to Ethiopia if their safe arrival could be guaranteed, for on a previous occasion a party of thirteen of his subjects traveling to Ethiopia had all perished.<ref>[[O. G. S. Crawford]] (editor), ''Ethiopian Itineraries, circa 1400–1524'' ([[Cambridge]]: the Hakluyt Society, 1958), pp. 12f.</ref> |
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A notable example of [[Ethiopian literature]] that has survived from this period is a [[panegyric]] addressed to Yeshaq, which [[Enrico Cerulli]] singled out as a gem of Ethiopian poetry.<ref>David Buxton, ''The Abyssinians'' (New York: Praeger, 1970), p. 131</ref> The first mention of the [[Yem people]] is found (under the now |
A notable example of [[Ethiopian literature]] that has survived from this period is a [[panegyric]] addressed to Yeshaq, which [[Enrico Cerulli]] singled out as a gem of Ethiopian poetry.<ref>David Buxton, ''The Abyssinians'' (New York: Praeger, 1970), p. 131</ref> The first mention of the [[Yem people]] is found (under the now pejorative exonym "Jangero") in the victory song of Yishaq I, with them stated as paying tribute in the form of horses to the king.<ref>G.W.B. Huntingford, ''The historical geography of Ethiopia from the first century AD to 1704'', (Oxford University Press: 1989), p. 94</ref> The first mention of the ethnonym "Somali" dates to the reign of [[Emperor of Ethiopia|Emperor]] Yishaq who had one of his court officials compose a [[hymn]] celebrating a military victory over the [[Sultan]] of Ifat's and his eponymous troops.<ref>I.M. Lewis, ''A modern history of the Somali: nation and state in the Horn of Africa'', 4, illustrated edition, (James Currey: 2002), p.25.</ref> |
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[[E. A. Wallis Budge]] states that he was assassinated, and "buried in [[Tadbaba Maryam]]", a [[convent]] in [[Sayint]],<ref>Budge, ''A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia'', 1928 ([[Oosterhout]], the [[Netherlands]]: Anthropological Publications, 1970), p. 303.</ref> while Ethiopian historian Tadesse Tamrat believes that the primary sources mask Yeshaq's death in battle against the |
[[E. A. Wallis Budge]] states that he was assassinated, and "buried in [[Tadbaba Maryam]]", a [[convent]] in [[Sayint]],<ref>Budge, ''A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia'', 1928 ([[Oosterhout]], the [[Netherlands]]: Anthropological Publications, 1970), p. 303.</ref> while Ethiopian historian [[Taddesse Tamrat|Tadesse Tamrat]] believes that the primary sources mask Yeshaq's death in battle against the Muslim [[Adal Sultanate|Adalites]] under the Adal Sultan [[Jamal ad-Din II]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Tamrat |first=Taddesse |author-link=Taddesse Tamrat |date=1972 |title=Church and state in Ethiopia, 1270-1527 |url=https://archive.org/details/churchstateineth0000tadd/page/153/mode/2up |url-access=registration |location=Oxford |publisher=Clarendon Press |page=153 |isbn=9780198216711 |oclc=953237273}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Fage |first1=J.D |title=The Cambridge History of Africa |publisher=Cambridge University press |page=155 |url=https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/default/files/archive-files3/roland_oliver_the_cambridge_history_of_africa_vbook4you.pdf}}</ref> |
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Sultan of Adal [[Jamal ad-Din II]] later undertook a further expedition in which it is recorded that he killed or took prisoners of everyone within twenty-days journey of his frontier. The Emperor's forces countered by attacking three different parts of Adal and threatening its capital where the royal family resided. Jamal ad-Din rushed home covering the distance of what was twenty days of journey in only three days. He met the imperial army at Harjah, where Yeshaq's army, though exhausted, fought well but was eventually defeated. The Emperor Yeshaq according to Maqrizi was killed in this battle. His death like that of Dawit, is not recorded for the same reason that the royal Ethiopian chronicles suppressed the violent deaths of their kings whose reigns they extolled. <ref>Pankhurst, ''Ethiopian Borderlands'', p.58.</ref> |
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==References== |
==References== |
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Latest revision as of 08:00, 19 April 2024
| Yesehaq I ይሥሐቅ | |
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| Emperor of Ethiopia | |
| Reign | 23 June 1414 – 1429 |
| Predecessor | Tewodros I |
| Successor | Andreyas |
| Dynasty | House of Solomon |
| Father | Dawit I |
| Religion | Ethiopian Orthodox |
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Yeshaq I (Ge'ez: ይሥሐቅ), throne name: Gabra Masqal II (Ge'ez: ገብረ መስቀል) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1414 to 1429/1430, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was the second son of Emperor Dawit I.[1]
Ancestry[edit]
Of Amhara lineage. Yeshaq I was a son of Emperor Dawit I, probably by Seyon Mogasa, one of Dawit's wives.[2][3]
Yeshaq had several notable brothers among them Emperor Tewodros I who he succeeded in 1414. His younger brothers included Emperor Takla Maryam and Emperor Zara Yaqob.[1][4]
Sources[edit]
Much of the details of Yeshaq's reign is found in the works of the medieval Arab historian Al-Maqrizi as well as in scattered Geez sources, and in an early Amharic poetic text. The overall image of Yeshaq which emerges from the sources is one of a powerful and confrontational Christian leader who fought his enemies, both political and religious, on several fronts.[3]
Reign[edit]
Yeshaq's reign was marked by a revolt of the Beta Israel. In response, the Emperor marched into Wegera, where he defeated the rebels at Kossoge some 30 kilometres (19 mi) north of Gondar, thereby ending the revolt. He also had the church Debre Yeshaq built there to commemorate his victory.[5] Yeshaq also invaded the Shanqella region beyond Agawmeder, and to the southeast he fought against Mansur ad-Din and Jamal ad-Din II.
Yeshaq, according to the Islamic historian al-Maqrizi, hired a group of Mamluks led by al-Tabingha to train his army in gunnery and swordfighting, they also taught him the secrets of Greek fire.[6] This is the earliest reference to firearms (Arabic naft) in Ethiopia.[7] About the same time another Egyptian visitor, a Copt, "reorganized the kingdom," according to al-Maqrizi, "and collected so much wealth for the Hati [the Emperor] that he enjoyed the king's authority." This unnamed Copt also introduced the practice of the Emperor dressing in "splendid" clothes and carrying a cross, which made him stand out from his subjects.[8]
Further, George Wynn Brereton Huntingford suggests that it was during Yeshaq's reign that the rulers of Ethiopia ceased having permanent capitals; instead, their courts were held in their encampments as they progressed around their realm.[9]
Yeshaq made the earliest known contact from post-Axumite Ethiopia to a European ruler. He sent a letter by two dignitaries to Alfonso V of Aragon, which reached the king in 1428, proposing an alliance against the Muslims and would be sealed by a dual marriage, that would require Infante Peter to bring a group of artisans to Ethiopia, where he would marry Yeshaq's daughter. It is not clear how or if Alfonso responded to this letter, although in a letter that reached Yeshaq's successor Zara Yaqob in 1450, Alfonso wrote that he would be happy to send artisans to Ethiopia if their safe arrival could be guaranteed, for on a previous occasion a party of thirteen of his subjects traveling to Ethiopia had all perished.[10]
A notable example of Ethiopian literature that has survived from this period is a panegyric addressed to Yeshaq, which Enrico Cerulli singled out as a gem of Ethiopian poetry.[11] The first mention of the Yem people is found (under the now pejorative exonym "Jangero") in the victory song of Yishaq I, with them stated as paying tribute in the form of horses to the king.[12] The first mention of the ethnonym "Somali" dates to the reign of Emperor Yishaq who had one of his court officials compose a hymn celebrating a military victory over the Sultan of Ifat's and his eponymous troops.[13]
E. A. Wallis Budge states that he was assassinated, and "buried in Tadbaba Maryam", a convent in Sayint,[14] while Ethiopian historian Tadesse Tamrat believes that the primary sources mask Yeshaq's death in battle against the Muslim Adalites under the Adal Sultan Jamal ad-Din II.[15][16]
Sultan of Adal Jamal ad-Din II later undertook a further expedition in which it is recorded that he killed or took prisoners of everyone within twenty-days journey of his frontier. The Emperor's forces countered by attacking three different parts of Adal and threatening its capital where the royal family resided. Jamal ad-Din rushed home covering the distance of what was twenty days of journey in only three days. He met the imperial army at Harjah, where Yeshaq's army, though exhausted, fought well but was eventually defeated. The Emperor Yeshaq according to Maqrizi was killed in this battle. His death like that of Dawit, is not recorded for the same reason that the royal Ethiopian chronicles suppressed the violent deaths of their kings whose reigns they extolled. [17]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Salvadore, Matteo (2016). The African Prester John and the Birth of Ethiopian-European Relations, 1402-1555. Routledge. p. 37. ISBN 9781317045465.
- ^ Kessler, David Francis (2012). The Falashas: A Short History of the Ethiopian Jews. Routledge. p. 94. ISBN 9781136304552.
- ^ a b Bausi, Alessandro; Uhlig, Siegbert, eds. (2014). Encyclopaedia Aethiopica - Vol. 5, Y - Z, Supplementa, Addenda et Corrigenda, Maps, Index. Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz. pp. 59–60. ISBN 9783447067409.
- ^ Salvadore, Matteo (2016). The African Prester John and the Birth of Ethiopian-European Relations, 1402-1555. Routledge. p. 130. ISBN 9781317045465.
- ^ James Bruce, Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile (1805 edition), vol. 3, p. 97
- ^ Morié, Louis-J. Auteur du texte (1904). Histoire de l'Éthiopie (Nubie et Abyssinie) : depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours. L'Abyssinie (Éthiopie moderne) / par L.-J. Morié... p. 215.
- ^ Richard Pankhurst, "Linguistic and Cultural Data on the Penetration of Fire-Arms into Ethiopia", Journal of Ethiopian Studies, Vol. 9, No. 1 (1971), pp. 47–82.
- ^ Richard Pankhurst, The Ethiopians: A History (Oxford: Blackwell, 1998), pp. 75f
- ^ Huntingford, (translator and editor), The Glorious Victories of 'Amda Seyon King of Ethiopia (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965), p. 16 n.
- ^ O. G. S. Crawford (editor), Ethiopian Itineraries, circa 1400–1524 (Cambridge: the Hakluyt Society, 1958), pp. 12f.
- ^ David Buxton, The Abyssinians (New York: Praeger, 1970), p. 131
- ^ G.W.B. Huntingford, The historical geography of Ethiopia from the first century AD to 1704, (Oxford University Press: 1989), p. 94
- ^ I.M. Lewis, A modern history of the Somali: nation and state in the Horn of Africa, 4, illustrated edition, (James Currey: 2002), p.25.
- ^ Budge, A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia, 1928 (Oosterhout, the Netherlands: Anthropological Publications, 1970), p. 303.
- ^ Tamrat, Taddesse (1972). Church and state in Ethiopia, 1270-1527. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 153. ISBN 9780198216711. OCLC 953237273.
- ^ Fage, J.D. The Cambridge History of Africa (PDF). Cambridge University press. p. 155.
- ^ Pankhurst, Ethiopian Borderlands, p.58.
