Takla Haïmanot II of Ethiopia
Takla Haïmanot II of Ethiopia (born in 1754 and died in 1777) was Négus of Ethiopia under the name of Admas Sagad III of 1769 with 1777. He is the oldest son of Yohannès II.
With Gondar, dissensions develop between the Galla and people of the Qouara. Close-cropped Mikaël, governor of the Striped , is called to establish peace. It kills the parents of Méntouab, widow of Bacaffa Pitiless the, then attacks the Galla. But Mikaël escapes in its residence from Gondar from an attack by ball drawn from a window by a servant from the Emperor Yoas. The night even, Yoas is strangled in its palate (1770). Ras Micaél makes come from Ouahni, where are retained the rival princes, the son junior by Iyasou II, 70 years old, which dies a few months after being established. Takla-Haïmanot II, his/her son, who agrees to return in the play of Mikaël, replaces it. According to James Bruce, which remains then with Gondar, the authority passed to the military chiefs, who dispute the capacity. The Méntouab empress, then old, is still influential.
After alternatives of success and defeats, Ras Micaél is made prisoner by a coalition of the chiefs of the Begamder and Godjam with the Official reception, then is constrained to regain the Striped one. Méntouab sees grouping around it a certain number of dissatisfied, quickly rather powerful so that Takla-Haïmanot II and Close-cropped Micaél are constrained to give up Gondar. But bastard Sousnéyos, opposed to the Emperor, is quickly overcome. The sovereign and Ras Mikaël enter in force the capital and punish without pity revolted.
The Official reception of Short-nap cloths Goucho, combined to the princes of the Begamder and the Godjam, face Takla-Haïmanot II and Ras Mikaël with Sérbaqoussa. Ras Mikaël is overcome after three battles. Méntouab returns then from the Godjam where it had taken refuge. Takla-Haïmanot II, initially left on the throne, is assassinated in 1777 in its palate by the men of Short-nap cloths Goucho, which break in the fight the large mirrors of Venice. His/her brother Takla-Guiorguis succeeds to him only in 1779 and reigns by eclipse until in 1800.
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