During the Zemene Mesafint, various lords came to abuse their positions by making Emperors and encroached upon the succession of the dynasty, by candidates among the nobility itself: for example, on the death of Emperor Tewoflos in 1711, the chief nobles of Ethiopia feared that the cycle of vengeance that had characterised the reigns of Tewoflos and Tekle Haymanot I (1706–1708) would continue if a member of the Solomonic dynasty were picked for the throne, so they selected one of their own, Yostos, to be King of Kings (nəgusä nägäst). However, the tenure of Yostos from 1711 to 1716 was brief, and the throne came into the hands of the Solomonic house once again.