Eleni, the wife of Zara Yaqob, and therefore Empress of Ethiopia, plays a significant role in the government of Ethiopia, acting as regent or advisor to a number of emperors; one testimony of this is the manuscript Bruce 88, which states that she had been in the palace of three illustrious Emperors: Zara Yaqob; his son by another wife, Baeda Maryam I, and Na'od.