Salomon III
Salomon III or Solomon III was the Emperor of Ethiopia from 20 May 1796 – 15 July 1797 and from 20 May 1799 for a short period, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was the son of Tekle Haymanot II.
He was largely a figurehead, appointed Emperor by Ras Wolde Selassie of Tigray and Ras Mare'ed in 1796. He spent the next year struggling with his rival, the former Emperor Tekle Giyorgis; while preoccupied with Tekle Giyorgis, the Gondar was surrounded in May 1797 by the rebel Master of Horse Asserat, who did not have the military strength to enter the capital city, and limited his destruction to burning the property of Tekle Giyorgis in Gondar. Salomon was forced to flee Gondar, and took refuge in Axum where he lived under the protection of Ras Wolde Selassie.1 He was restored as Emperor briefly in 1799.
Budge notes some authorities believe he was the same person as Baeda Maryam II.2
Notes
- Richard P.K. Pankhurt, History of Ethiopian Towns (Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1982), p. 177.
- E. A. Wallis Budge, A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia, 1928 (Oosterhout, the Netherlands: Anthropological Publications, 1970), p. 479.
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