Andreyas [SEP] noble family
Andreyas
Andreyas ( "indrēyās" "Andrew") was Emperor () (1429–1430) of Abyssinia, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was the oldest son of Yeshaq I. The British explorer James Bruce, who wrote one of the earliest European histories of Abyssinia, reports little more than Andreyas was buried with his father at the Tadbaba Maryam monastery.
Fate of Andreyas, Samuel's father.
In Samuel's father's time, Emperor Amda Seyon I of Ethiopia had had the adherents of Tekle Haymanot deported, because they denounced the king's marriage with a concubine of his father. Andreyas was chased away to Krestos Fatar. After a fruitful life as a monk in Krestos Fatar he was called to the king a second time. This time, he was tortured together with his fellow-believers, and afterwards exiled. He died on the road and was buried in Enasedestey