Afonso II of Kongo information

Afonso II was a ruler of the Kingdom of Kongo in 1561. Little is known about Afonso II or his reign. Duarte Lopes told Filippo Pigafetta the Italian humanist...

The Kingdom of Kongo (Kongo: Kongo dya Ntotila or Wene wa Kongo; Portuguese: Reino do Congo) was a kingdom in Central Africa. It was located in present-day...

Afonso II of Kongo and Nkondo was a ruler of the kingdom of Kongo in the period following the Kongo Civil War. He was a member of the House of Kimpanzu...

Nzima, father of the founder of Kongo. Divisions emerged within the kanda during succession disputes, for example, following the death of Afonso I in 1542...

to be confused with Afonso II of Kongo from the 16th century, took the throne after the death of António I. The ascension of Afonso, a Kimpanzu partisan...

to mean "person of the kingdom".[citation needed] Mwene is attested in very early texts, notably the letters of King Afonso I of Kongo, where he writes...

of India Nzinga Mbemba (1505–1543), also known as "Afonso I of Kongo" Afonso II of Kongo (1561) Afonso III of Kongo (1666–1667) Afonso, 1st Duke of Braganza...

status of bishop in 1518, and who worked in Kongo from 1521 until his death in 1531. The Church that Afonso created was not simply a copy or extension of the...

Diogo I was manikongo in 1545–1561. King Diogo was the grandson of king Afonso I of Kongo and won the throne after overthrowing his uncle Pedro Nkanga a...

Republic of Congo. He came to power after murdering his half-brother Afonso II who was less well-disposed toward the Portuguese. The rule of Bernardo...

Afonso V of the Congo (Ndo Mfunsu V in Kikongo and Afonso V in Portuguese) was a Kinlaza manikongo of the Kingdom of Kongo from 1785 to 1787. He succeeded...

The Kongo people (Kongo: Bisi Kongo, EsiKongo, singular: Musi Kongo; also Bakongo, singular: Mukongo or M'kongo) are a Bantu ethnic group primarily defined...

Garcia II Nkanga a Lukeni a Nzenze a Ntumba, also known as Garcia Afonso for short, ruled the Kingdom of Kongo from 23 January 1641 to 1661. He is sometimes...

Nlaza of Kongo was a manikongo from the Lukeni kanda dynasty and the 3rd ruler of the Central African kingdom of Kongo in the early 15th century. Little...

Pedro II Nkanga a Mvika was a ruler of the kingdom of Kongo during the kingdom's first conflict with the Portuguese. He was the founder of the royal House...

mentioned in the titles of King Alvaro II in 1583. This polity or region was first mentioned in texts of the Kingdom of Kongo in the late 16th century...

later reunited by Pedro IV of Kongo: Kibangu (Manuel I of Kibangu) Lemba (João II of Lemba) Nsonso/Nkondo (Afonso II of Kongo and Nkondo) (assuming Nsonso/Sonso...

Henrique II was ruler of the Kingdom of Kongo in 1794 – 1803. His rule came after the end of a period of conflict in the kingdom after the death of Afonso V...

malambila Kongo" (Kinkanga, Kimpanzu and Kinlaza are the three stones on which Kongo cooked). In KiKongo the language of the kingdom of Kongo, the name of the...

by Afonso I,the king of Kongo in 1535, in which he lists "JBungu" among other places over which he ruled as king. Traditions collected in the Kongo court...

King of Sweden (1008) Jogaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania and King of Poland (1386) Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba Afonso I of Kongo Humabon, Rajah of Cebu...

settlement to the succession crisis in Kongo brokered by the old Queen Ana Afonso de Leão with the special cooperation of the Capuchin missionary Francesco...

Duke of Soyo died. The king of Kongo invaded the area, killed da Silva's son, and installed Pedro Afonso Nkanga a Mvika, who previously was Marquis of Wenbo...

province of the old Kingdom of Kongo. Its capital was located on the Inkisi River, near the present-day village of Mbanza Nsundi in Democratic Republic of Congo...