Asay

Asay, known in church tradition as Abba Yasay, was a son of the fourteenth-century Emperor Amda Seyon I (r. 1314–1344) and the fifth of five princes in the traditional Solomonic genealogy. He entered the Church, and local tradition of the Dembiya country, recorded on the northern shore of Lake Tana, makes him the founder of the church of Mandaba Madhane Alem.

He has also been identified with a king's brother who lived as a monk at the monastery of Saint Abba Aron under the Emperor Newaya Krestos.