Walda Lǝʿul
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
birth: ወልደ፡ ልዑል፡↗ normalized: Walda Lǝʿul↗ rās role: title ↗
Period of Activity
He was a major figure in the court of politics of Gondar↗ from 1730s to 1760s, a brother of Bǝrhān Mogasā↗ and leading members of Qwaraññā faction which dominated the palace and state during those decades. He first achieved prominence during the reign of Bakāffā↗ of whom he was a favourite.
Death
1767
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Names
- birth: ወልደ፡ ልዑል፡ gez
- rās role: title
Dates
Period of activity: 1730–1760
Death: 1767
Occupation
courtier
Faith
EOTC
Nationality
Ethiopia
Secondary Bibliography Secondary Bibliography
Secondary Bibliography
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Guidi, I., ed., 1961. Annales Iohannis I, Iyāsu I et Bakāffā. Versio, tr. I. Guidi, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 25, Scriptores Aethiopici, 8 (Louvain: 1961).
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Guidi, I., ed., 1960. Annales Iohannis I, ’Iyāsu I et Bakāffā. Textus, tr. I. Guidi, Corpus Scriptorum Christianorum Orientalium, 22, Scriptores Aethiopici, 5 (Louvain: Secrétariat du Corpus SCO, 1960).
Secondary Bibliography
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Crummey, D. 2010. ‘Wäldä Lǝʿul’, in S. Uhlig and A. Bausi, eds, Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, IV (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010), 1104b–1105a.
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Bosc-Tiessé, C. 2004. ‘“How Beautiful She Is!” in Her Mirror: Polysemic Images and Reflections of Power of an Eighteenth-Century Ethiopian Queen’, Journal of Early Modern History, 8/3 (2004), 294–318. page 294-318
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Solomon Gebreyes, Alessandro Bausi, Pietro Maria Liuzzo, Eugenia Sokolinski, ʻWalda Lǝʿulʼ, in Alessandro Bausi, ed., Die Schriftkultur des christlichen Äthiopiens und Eritreas: Eine multimediale Forschungsumgebung / Beta maṣāḥǝft (Last Modified: 18.10.2017) https://betamasaheft.eu/persons/PRS9931WaldaLe [Accessed: 2024-05-03+02:00]
Revisions of the data
- Solomon Gebreyes Complete record on 18.10.2017
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo batch updated according to requirements and issues. on 28.4.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Created file from google spreadsheet on 21.3.2016
- Eugenia Sokolinski CREATED: person on 9.2.2016
Attributions of the contents
Alessandro Bausi, general editor
Solomon Gebreyes, editor
Pietro Maria Liuzzo, contributor
Eugenia Sokolinski, contributor