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Zara Yaqob ? (Ge'ez, Prester John, Kwestantinos I) b. 1399 d. 1468

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Lineage	?
Sex	Male
Full name (at birth)	Zara Yaqob ?
Other last names	Ge'ez, Prester John, Kwestantinos I
Parents ♂ Tewodros I (Tudur) ? (Waldha Ambasa) [?] ♀ Seyon ? (Mangasha) [?]
Wiki-page	wikipedia:Zara_Yaqob

Events

1399 birth: Tilq, Fatagar, Ethiopia

child birth: ♀ Berhan ? (Zamada) [?]

child birth: ♀ Medhan Zamada [?]

other: Council of Debre Mitmaq in Tegulet (1450)

marriage: ♀ w Eleni Bint Mehmad (of Hadiay) [Hadidi] d. April 1522

marriage: ♀ Seyon Morgasa ? (Mother of Baeda Maryam) [?] d. 1462

between June 1434 and 1468 title: Negus of Ethiopia

1448 child birth: ♂ Baeda Maryam ? (of Ethiopia) [?] b. 1448

1468 death:

Notes

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According to wikipedia: Zara Yaqob was the youngest son of Dawit I and his youngest queen, Igzi Kebra. It is not what is described here in Rodovid.

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Tilq, Fatagar, Ethiopia

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Author of the three theological works:

Mahsafa Berha
Mahsafa Milad
Mahsafa Selassie

Legends of this king have become conflated with legends of earlier kings and notables including John the beloved disciple of Jesus Christ who was a relative of ru:Kujula Kadphises (House of David - Araunah, b. calculated d. about 80)

[edit] Sources

↑ Taddesse Tamrat, Church and State in Ethiopia (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), ISBN 0-19-821671-8 - The Catholic Ecumenical Council of Florence (1438–1445) declared that Zara Yaqob was the legendary rumored king Prester John.