Le'ul Ras Mengesha Seyoum (Amharic: መንገሻ ሥዩም; born 7 December 1927)[citation needed] is a member of the imperial family of the Ethiopian Empire.

Le'ul Dejazmach Mangasha Seyum was born in 1927 in Addis Ababa and moved to Dengolat, a village in Enderta district, part of Tigray province of Ethiopia[citation needed].

Emperor Menelik II of Shoa came to power after the Battle of Metemma when Yohannes IV was killed and the male line of the Solomonic Dynasty was re-established on the Imperial throne.

[2] He also played a major role in the establishment of the Ethiopian Tourism Organization, renegotiated the contract for the Franco-Ethiopian railway, and built an oil refinery in Asseb.

After his father was murdered during the unsuccessful 1960 coup against Emperor Haile Selassie Mengesha Seyoum was elevated to the title of Leul Ras and became Prince and Governor of Tigray.

He kept strong connections with Tembien from where his family originated: he participated yearly in the annual patron's day at Abune Aregawi church in Zeyi which his grandfather Yohannes IV had built.

[4] While nowadays public opinion remembers him by his road building activities or start of the first modern soil conservation,[5] the rural people are well aware of the plight of their ancestors during feudality.

Leul Ras Mengesha Seyoum lives mostly in Addis Ababa, and partly in the Washington Since his wife of more than 60 years, Princess Aida died on January 15, 2013, in Alexandria, Virginia.

Although for a significant period during the 1970s and 1980s he was regarded as a possible candidate for the succession by many monarchists, in 1989 he accepted and recognized the proclamation of Crown Prince Asfaw Wossen as Emperor in Exile of Ethiopia under the name Amha Selassie.