Ruler · 1522 – 1559

Gelawdewos

Lived 1522 – 1559; monarch. Emperor of Ethiopia of Ethiopian Empire, 1540 – 1559.

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Lived: 1522 – 1559; 37 years
In office: 19 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Ethiopian Empire
Left it: died in office; read off the dates alone

Emperor of Ethiopia

Ethiopian Empire · the 26th of 79 dated reigns · 1260 – 1974

22 before

Amda Seyon II1494

Na'od1494 – 1508

Dawit II1508 – 1540

Gelawdewos1540 – 1559

Menas of Ethiopia1559 – 1563

Sarsa Dengel1563 – 1597

Yaqob of Ethiopia1597 – 1603

50 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1540 – 1559 · 19 years · came to it aged 18

Came to it: the child of the ruler before, on record
Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 1559, the year they died

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