Takla Maryam

Takla Maryam ዓፄ ተክለ ማርያም
Emperor of Ethiopia
Reign	March 1430 – June 1433[1]
Predecessor	Andreyas
Successor	Sarwe Iyasus
Issue	Sarwe Iyasus Amda Iyasus
Dynasty	House of Solomon
Father	Dawit I
Religion	Ethiopian Orthodox Church

Takla Maryam (Ge'ez: ተክለ ማርያም), throne name Hezbe Nañ (Ge'ez: ሕዝበ ናኝ) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1430 to 1433, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was the third son of Dawit I.[2]

Manoel de Almeida remarks that the descendants of Takla Maryam had been taken from Amba Geshen by Emperor Zara Yaqob and "exiled to hot lands where there are many diseases"; when his son Emperor Baeda Maryam I, early in his reign, attempted to redress this injury by recalling them from exile, they slew his messengers. Although Baeda Maryam I promptly took punitive measures (which included decapitating 80 of their members), in de Almeida's day they were "still rigorously watched".[3]

Notes

1. Stewart, John (2006). African States and Rulers (third ed.). London: McFarland & Company Inc. p. 93.
2. Marie-Laure Derat 2010. Täklä Maryam. Edited by Siegbert Uhlig and Alessandro Bausi. Encyclopedia Aethiopica. Wiesbaden: Harassowitz.
3. C.F. Beckingham and G.W.B. Huntingford, Some Records of Ethiopia, 1593-1646 (London: Hakluyt Society, 1954), pp.101f.

Regnal titles
Preceded by Andreyas	Emperor of Ethiopia 1430–1433	Succeeded by Sarwe Iyasus