page_title: Dawit II
hierarchical_section_title: Dawit II
caption_attribution_description: Cristofano dell’Altissimo, Portrait of Lebnä-Dengel. c. 1552-1568.
context_page_description: Dawit II or David II, also known by the macaronic name Wanag Segad "To Whom Lions Bow", better known by his birth name Lebna Dengel, was nəgusä nägäst of the Ethiopian Empire, whose political center and palace was in Shewa.
  A male line descendant of the medieval Amhara kings, and thus a member of the House of Solomon, he was the son of Emperor Na'od and Empress Na'od Mogesa. The important victory over the Adal sultan Mahfuz may have given Dawit the appellation Wanag Segad, which is a combination of Geʽez and Harari terms.
context_section_description: Dawit II or David II (Ge'ez: ዳዊት [dāwīt]; c. 1496 – 2 September 1540), also known by the macaronic name Wanag Segad "To Whom Lions Bow", better known by his birth name Lebna Dengel (ልብነ ድንግል; Ləbnä Dəngəl), was nəgusä nägäst (1508–1540) of the Ethiopian Empire, whose political center and palace was in Shewa.
  A male line descendant of the medieval Amhara kings, and thus a member of the House of Solomon, he was the son of Emperor Na'od and Empress Na'od Mogesa. The important victory over the Adal sultan Mahfuz may have given Dawit the appellation Wanag Segad, which is a combination of Geʽez and Harari terms.
caption: Contemporary portrait of Lebna Dengel by Cristofano dell'Altissimo
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