Yolyos (Ge'ez: ዮልዮስ yōlyōs, "Julius")[note 1] was an early 17th-century Ethiopian noble.
Yolyos was pardoned and released from detention after eight days, after Malakotawit having pleaded with her father for clemency.
[2][3] In 1617 there was a conspiracy to overthrow Emperor Susenyos, organized by his close relatives, his officials and nobility who opposed his religious policy, and those who were dissafected by his wars and the amount of annual military expeditions.
According to Pedro Paez, a confidante of Susenyos, the principal leader of the conspiracy was Yolyos.
[2] His headquarters in Ifat was on an amba, a natural flat-topped mountain fortress, at Gefegef, which he used to defend against nearby Muslims of Qecheno.