# Zenebework

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Woizero **Zenebework** was the wife of [Wossen Seged](/source/Wossen_Seged), [Merid Azmach](/source/Ethiopian_aristocratic_and_court_titles#Important_regional_offices) of [Shewa](/source/Shewa); the mother of [Negus](/source/Negus) [Sahle Selassie](/source/Sahle_Selassie), the first [Negus](/source/Negus) of Shewa; the grandmother of Negus [Haile Melekot](/source/Haile_Melekot) of Shewa; and the great-grandmother of Emperor [Menelik II](/source/Menelik_II). Woizero Zenebework held the powerful districts of [Menz](/source/Menz) and [Tegulet](/source/Tegulet) as her personal fiefs.

Zenebework was the most powerful woman in Shewa during the reigns of her husband, son and grandson. Despite the efforts of Sahle Selassie to resolve the ongoing [theological disputes](/source/Christological_disputes_in_Ethiopia) that affected the [Ethiopian Church](/source/Ethiopian_Church) in Shewa, she intervened on behalf of the *Sost Lidat*, which led to an edict on 24 November 1841 which purged all of the clergy who did not embrace that view on [the nature of Christ](/source/Christology).[1] She joined her daughter-in-law [Bezabish](/source/Bezabish) in betraying her grandson Haile Melekot by submitting to Emperor [Tewodros II](/source/Tewodros_II) of Ethiopia when he invaded Shewa in 1855 to forcefully re-incorporate it into the Empire.

## Notes

1. Donald Crummey, *Priests and Politicians*, 1972 (Hollywood: Tsehai, 2007), pp. 50f

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