Iyasou II of Ethiopia

Iyasou II of Ethiopia (born in 1723 and died in 1755) was Négus of Ethiopia under the name of Berhan Sagad of 1730 with 1755.

He is the son of Bacaffa Pitiless the and Méntouab.

With died of Bacaffa in 1730, the Méntaweb empress hides the death during some time in order to firmly establish his/her son Iyasou II on the throne. She exerts regency, and survivor with his son, keeps a great influence a long time. It would have had Portuguese blood and perhaps a certain attachment with the Catholicisme, which explains why Abouna would have excommunicated it with its young person wire. Strong of the alliance of the lords of the Qouara, its family, and of the military colonies of the Godjam, it ensures Iyasou II the possibility of surmounting the disorders and the rebellions caused by rival applicants, like the rising caused by a Bacaffa forgery, during which, with Gondar, the House-D' Gold and the church of Raphaél are destroyed.

To its majority, Iyasou II leads victorious forwardings against the Balaou Bédja, establishes on the Sétit and against the powerful governor of the Tigré Ras Micaél-Séhoul. By its intrigues, it had made persecute by the Turks of Arkiko the imperial embassy sent to the Cairo to bring back Abouna of it. Iyasou countered it to go. Another countryside launched towards the Sudan against the Foundj shows a failure (1744). Iyasou II tries to withdraw from the supervision parents of its mother by marrying a princess Galla, Ouébi. It loses the sympathy of the Christians thus. He still dies the young June 26th 1755, in an empire torn by the disorders. His/her son Yoas, a half child Official reception, replaces it in 1769.

Iyasou II, like its predecessors, likes hunting (elephant, buffalo, giraffe), the luxury and constructions. Goldsmiths of Smyrna, taken refuge with Gondar, decorate its palate richly (ivory skirting, mirrors of Venice). It makes build a large villa with Azazo, enriches the capital by the church of Jean-Baptiste Saint. Méntaweb is made build a small palace with Gondar as well as the Abbey and the residence of Cousquam.

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