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Gelawdewos

1522 - 1559

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Galawdewos (Ge'ez: ገላውዴዎስ, 1521/1522 – 23 March 1559), also known as Claudius in European sources, was Emperor of Ethiopia from 3 September 1540 until his death in 1559, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. His throne name was Atsnaph Sagad I (Ge'ez: አጽናፍ ሰገድ). A male line descendant of medieval Amhara kings, he was a younger son of Dawit II and Seble Wongel. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gelawdewos is the 468th most popular nobleman (up from 1,327th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Ethiopia (up from 50th in 2019) and the most popular Ethiopian Nobleman.

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Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, Gelawdewos ranks 468 out of 1,415. Before him are Anna Catherine Constance Vasa, Elvira of Castile, Queen of Sicily, Anne Geneviève de Bourbon, Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, Godfrey II, Count of Louvain, and Robert I, Count of Dreux. After him are Princess Louise of Orléans, Princess Marie of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Henriette of Cleves, Haakon, Crown Prince of Norway, Archduchess Mathilda of Austria, and Archduchess Louise of Austria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1522, Gelawdewos ranks 13. Before him are Sen no Rikyū, Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Joachim du Bellay, Catherine of Ricci, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, and Shibata Katsuie. After him are Charles II de Valois, Duke of Orléans, Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, Honoré I, Lord of Monaco, Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Dirck Coornhert, and Sophia Jagiellon, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Among people deceased in 1559, Gelawdewos ranks 12. Before him are Isabella Jagiellon, Beyhan Sultan, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, and Benvenuto Tisi. After him are Michele Sanmicheli, Robert Estienne, Wen Zhengming, Fatma Sultan, Christina Gyllenstierna, and Otto Henry, Elector Palatine.

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In Ethiopia

Among people born in Ethiopia, Gelawdewos ranks 26 out of 105. Before him are Dawit II (1496), Girma Wolde-Giorgis (1924), Susenyos I (1572), Hailemariam Desalegn (1965), Meles Zenawi (1955), and Abdiqasim Salad (1941). After him are Abdullah ibn Ja'far (650), Mulatu Teshome (1955), Tekle Giyorgis II (1836), Kaleb of Axum (500), Taytu Betul (1851), and Negasso Gidada (1943).

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Among NOBLEMEN In Ethiopia

Among noblemen born in Ethiopia, Gelawdewos ranks 1. After him are Menen Asfaw (1889).

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