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Amda Seyon I
Amda Seyon (also Amde Tsiyon and other variants, Ge'ez ዐምደ ፡ ጽዮን ''ʿamda ṣiyōn'', Amharic ''āmde ṣiyōn'', "Pillar of Zion") was Emperor of Ethiopia (1314–1344;〔 throne name Gebre Mesqel Ge'ez ገብረ ፡ መስቀል ''gabra masḳal'', Amh. ''gebre mesḳel'', "slave of the cross"), and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. According to the British expert on Ethiopia, Edward Ullendorff, "Amde Tseyon was one of the most outstanding Ethiopian kings of any age and a singular figure dominating the Horn of Africa in the fourteenth century."〔Edward Ullendorff, his review of Huntingford's translation of ''The Glorious Victories of Amda Ṣeyon, King of Ethiopia'', (''Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London'' ), 29 (1966), p. 600〕 His conquests of Muslim borderlands greatly expanded Ethiopian territory and power in the region, maintained for centuries after his death. Amda Seyon asserted the strength of the newly (1270) installed Solomonic dynasty and therefore legitimized it. These expansions further provided for the spread of Christianity to frontier areas, sparking a long era of proselytization, Christianization, and integration of previously peripheral areas.〔Joanna Mantel-Niećko and Denis Nosnitsin, "cAmdä Ṣəyon I" in Siegbert Uhlig, ''Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: A-C'' (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003), p. 228.〕
==Ancestry==
It is argued that there is sufficient evidence to show that Amda Seyon was the son of Wedem Arad.〔 However, when a deputation of monks led by Basalota Mikael accused him of incest for marrying Emperor Wedem Arad's concubine Jan Mogassa and threatened to excommunicate him, he claimed to be the biological son of the Emperor's brother Qidm Asagid; this explanation may have had its origins in court gossip. Whatever the truth of Amda Seyon's parentage, the Imperial history known as the Paris Chronicle records that he expressed his rage at his accusers by beating one of them, Abbot Anorewos of Segaja, and exiling the other ecclesiastics to Dembiya and Begemder.〔G.W.B. Huntingford, ''The Glorious Victories of Amda Seyon, King of Ethiopia'' (Oxford: University Press, 1965), pp. 6ff.〕
It is not known how Amda Seyon became Emperor. However, there are a few pieces of information that indicate that he may have been involved in the succession struggle against Wedem Arad.〔Joanna Mantel-Niećko and Denis Nosnitsin, "Amdä Ṣəyon I", p. 227.〕
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