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Ras Mengesha was married to Woizero Kefey Welle, the niece of Empress Taytu Betul . He rebelled again against Menelik when he was denied the title of Negus of Zion. (His decendents would be outraged decades later when Ras Mikael was crowned with this title by Lij Iyasu ). Emperor Menelik had Ras Mengesha captured and imprisoned under house arrest at the old Shewan royal palace at Ankober . Familial rivalry between the two lines of decent from Emperor Yohannes IV (through his elder legitimate son Ras Araya Selassie Yohannes and his younger natural son Mengesha) proved to be a difficult issue for Emperor Menelik II and his successors. Ras Araya's son Gugsa, and Ras Mengesha's son Seyoum would for a time devide Tigray between them, with Ras Gugsa ruling the eastern half, and Ras Seyoum the western half. Eventually Mengesha's son Ras Seyoum Mengesha was made prince of all Tigray in succession to his father after the death of his cousin Ras Gugsa, and the treason of Gugsa's son, Dejazmatch Haile Selassie Gugsa , who joined forces with the Italian fascists in 1936. Ras Mengesha is thus regarded as the founder of one of the two senior cadet branches of the Ethiopian Imperial Solomonic Dynasty. |