List of rulers of Makuria

Rulers[]

Note that dates are quite uncertain for most Makurian rulers.

name	comments/notes	date of reign
Qalidurut	Signed the Baqt	c. 651/2
	Rebuilt Cathedral of Dongola	651 or 653-696
Merkourios		696–710
Zacharias	self abdicated the throne
Simeon
Abraham
Markos
Kyriakos		c. 747–68
Khael or		c. 785/94 – 804/13
		Before 822? or c. 850?
Zakharias III Ali Baba of Makuria	son of Ioannes	c. 835?–856/859/866
Georgios I of Makuria	son of Zakharias	856/859/866
		920–930
		c. 943
Georgios II		969 – c. 1002
Raphael		1000 – c. 1006
		c. 1027
Solomon	supposedly restored matrilineal succession	1077–1079/80
		c. 1079/80
		c. 1089
	son of Basileios^[1]	1130–1158
Moses Georgios	son of Georgios IV^[2]	c. 1158
		c. 1268
David		c. 1272–1276
		c. 1276
		c. 1276
		c. 1279
	also Simamun	c. 1286–1287/8
Nephew of Semamun		1287/8–1288
		c. 1288–1289
Nephew of David (Budamma)		c. 1289–1290
		c. 1290–1295
	also known as Amai	c. 1304/5
		1305–1312
Kernabes		1311–1316
-Seif el Din Abdallah	Converted to Islam, Mamluk vassal	1316–1317
	Mamluk vassal	c. 1317
Ibrahim	Mamluk vassal for three days	c. 1317
		1323–1324
Kanz al-Dawla	Mamluk vassal	c. 1324
	last rulers of makuria	1333
Nasir of Makuria	Mamluk Vassal, Last ruler of Makuria	c. 1397

Derek A. Welsby: The Medieval Kingdoms of Nubia, British Museum Press, London 2002, pp. 259–61 ISBN 0-7141-1947-4