PREDECESSORS AND SHORT HISTORY:
A kingdom based at Nyanza, in Butare Province. Rulers
were...
- Mwami NDAHIRO I Riyange, Mwami of Rwanda
- Mwami NDOBA (son), Mwami of Rwanda
- Mwami SAMEMBE (son), Mwami of Rwanda
- Mwami NSORO Samirkondo (son), Mwami of
Rwanda
- Mwami RUGANZU I Bwimba (son), Mwami of
Rwanda
- Mwami CYILIMA I Rugwe (brother), Mwami of
Rwanda
- Mwami KIGELI I Mukobanya (son), Mwami of
Rwanda
- Mwami MIBAMBWE I (brother), Mwami of Rwanda
- Mwami YUHI I Gahima (son), Mwami of Rwanda
- Mwami NDAHIRO II Gaamatare (son), Mwami of
Rwanda
- Mwami RUGANZU II Ndoori, Mwami of Rwanda
- Mwami MUTARA I Seemagushi (son), Mwami of
Rwanda
- Mwami KIGELI II Nyamukeshera (son), Mwami of
Rwanda
- Mwami MIBAMBWE II Gisamura (son), Mwami of
Rwanda
- Mwami YUHI II Mazimpaka (son), Mwami of
Rwanda
- Mwami KAREMEERA I Rwaaka (son), Mwami of
Rwanda
- Mwami CYILIMA II Rujugira (brother), Mwami
of Rwanda
- Mwami KIGELI III Ndabarasa, Mwami of Rwanda
-/1792
- Mwami MIBAMBWE III Seentaabyo (son), Mwami
of
Rwanda
1792/1797
- Mwami YUHI III Gahindiro (son), Mwami of
Rwanda
1797/1830
- Mwami MUTARA II Rwoogera (son), Mwami of
Rwanda
1830/1860, married
and had issue.
- Mwami Kigeli IV Rwabugiri (qv)
- Mwami KIGELI IV
Rwabugiri,
25th Mwami of Rwanda 1860/1895, married (amongst
others) (a), Umugabezaki
Kanjogera
(later regent, qv) married (b), Queen Kumukera,
daughter of Chief Ruvusatshuma, and had issue. He
died November 1895.
- Mwami Yuhi IV Musinga (by Kanyogera) (qv)
- Mwami Mibambwe IV Rutarindwa (qv)
- Prince Munana
- Princess Beeraboose (by Queen Kumukera), 3rd Queen
of Bufumbira (see Ankole predecessor states).
- Prince Nyindo (by Queen Kumukera), 4th Mwami of
Bufumbira
- Mwami MIBAMBWE IV
Rutarindwa, Mwami of Rwanda 1895/1896, died
1896.
- Mwami KABARE, Regent of
Rwanda
1896/1916, brother of
Kanjogera and Mbanzabigwi.
- Umugabezaki Kanjogera
[Nyirayuhi
V], Regent of Rwanda 1896/1916
- Mwami RUHINANKIKO,
Regent of
Rwanda 1896/1916
- Mwami NDUNGUTSE, Mwami of
Rwanda
(in rebellion) 1911/1912
- Mwami YUHI IV
Musinga, Mwami of Rwanda 1896/1931 (deposed),
born
1883, he was deposed by the Belgian administration
because of his
inability to work with subordinate chiefs and his
refusal to be
baptized a Roman Catholic; married
(a), (amongst others)
Umugabezaki
Kankazi [Nyiaramavugo III], Regent in 1931, daughter
of
Mbanzabigyi,
brother of Kanyogera, married (b), Queen Mukashema,
and had issue. He died
25th December 1944 in Moba.
- HM Mwami Mutara III Rudahigwa (qv)
- HM Mwami Kigeli V Ndahindurwa (by Mukashema) (qv)
- Princess Musheshambugu fl.1930
- Prince Munonozi
- Prince Rudacyahwa
- Prince Étienne Rwigemera
- Prince Ruzibiza
- Prince Subika
- Prince Ruzindana
- HM Mwami MUTARA III Charles Léon
Pierre
Rudahigwa, Mwami of Rwanda
1931/1959, born
March 1913, he was the first Mwami
to convert to Catholicism, in 1941, spearheading a
wave of baptisms in
the
protectorate; married 1stly. 15th October 1933
(div.1941)
HM Queen Nyiramakomali
of the Abgesera Clan, married 2ndly, 13th January
1942, HM Queen
Rosalie
Gicanda, born about 1914,
murdered by rebels 21st April 1994 in Butare with six
relatives, buried
at the Rukali Royal Palace in Nyanza. He died 25th
July 1959 in
Bujumbura, buried at the Rukali Royal
Palace in Nyanza.
- HM Mwami KIGELI V Jean Baptiste Ndahindurwa,
Mwami
of Rwanda (see
above)
OTHER MEMBERS:
- Gerard Rwigemera, brother of Florida Uwera, born
1937 in
Mutandi.
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