Manoel de Almeida remarks that the descendants of Takla Maryam had been taken from Amba Geshen by Emperor Zara Yaqob and "exiled to hot lands where there are many diseases"; when his son Emperor Baeda Maryam I, early in his reign, attempted to redress this injury by recalling them from exile, they slew his messengers. Although Baeda Maryam I promptly took punitive measures (which included decapitating 80 of their members), in de Almeida's day they were "still rigorously watched".[3]
Notes
^Stewart, John (2006). African States and Rulers (third ed.). London: McFarland & Company Inc. p. 93.
^Marie-Laure Derat 2010. Täklä Maryam. Edited by Siegbert Uhlig and Alessandro Bausi. Encyclopedia Aethiopica. Wiesbaden: Harassowitz.
^C.F. Beckingham and G.W.B. Huntingford, Some Records of Ethiopia, 1593-1646 (London: Hakluyt Society, 1954), pp.101f.