| Yeshaq I Of Ethiopia |
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He continued the campaigns against the Falashas . Yeshaq invaded the Shankella region beyond Agawmeder , and in the southern part of Ethiopia he fought against the sons of Sa'ad Ad-Din II who returned from exile in Arabia . Yeshaq made the earliest known contact from post-Axumite Ethiopia to a Europe an ruler. He sent a letter by two dignitaries to Alfonso V Of Aragon , which reached the king in 1428, proposing an alliance against the Muslim s and would be sealed by a dual marriage, that would require the Infante Don Pedro to bring a group of artisans to Ethiopia, where he would marry Yeshaq's daughter. It is not clear how or if Alfonso responded to this letter, although in a letter that reached Yeshaq's successor Zara Yaqob in 1450, Alfonso wrote that he would be happy to send artisans to Ethiopia if their safe arrival could be guaranteed, for on a previous occasion a party of 13 of his subjects travelling to Ethiopia had all perished. 1 Tadesse Tamrat believes that the primary sources mask Yeshaq's death in battle against the Muslim s. E. A. Wallis Budge states that he was assassinated, and "buried in Tadbaba Maryam ". 2 REFERENCES # O. G. S. Crawford (editor), ''Ethiopian Itineraries, circa 1400 - 1524'' (Cambridge: the Hakluyt Society, 1958), pp. 12f. # Budge, ''A History of Ethiopia: Nubia and Abyssinia'', 1928 (Oosterhout, the Netherlands: Anthropological Publications, 1970), p. 303. |
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