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Lourenço Da Silva De Mendouça
Lourenço da Silva Mendouça was a member of the royal family of the Kingdom of Ndongo in what is now Angola. An abolitionist, he was probably the first person to successfully convince authorities to end slavery in Europe. A Catholic, his dealings were mostly with Church authorities and those with whom they were associated. His historical achievement had been largely forgotten and obfuscated until work by the historian Richard Gray in the 1980s and 1990s (who initially only had three or so sources to rely on), and the scholar José Lingna Nafafé, who discovered many new sources and details of the history of his life in the 2010s—including confirmation that he was an African prince. Biography Lourenço da Silva Mendouça was a member of the Mbundu people from the city of Pedras. His date of birth is unknown, but he may have been 22 or 23 years old when he left Angola in 1671. His grandfather, known as either King Hari or Philipe I, was the second ruler of the Kingdom of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingdom Of Ndongo
The Kingdom of Ndongo (formerly known as Angola or Dongo, also Kimbundu: ) was an early-modern African state located in the highlands between the Lukala and Kwanza Rivers, in what is now Angola. The Kingdom of Ndongo is first recorded in the sixteenth century. It was one of multiple vassal states to Kongo, though Ndongo was the most powerful of these with a king called the '' Ngola''. Little is known of the kingdom in the early sixteenth century. "Angola" was listed among the titles of the King of Kongo in 1535, so it was likely somewhat subordinate to Kongo. Its oral traditions, collected in the late sixteenth century, particularly by the Jesuit Baltasar Barreira, described the founder of the kingdom, Ngola Kiluanje, also known as Ngola Inene, as a migrant from Kongo, chief of a Kimbundu-speaking ethnic group. Political structure The Kimbundu-speaking region was known as the land of Mbundu people. It was ruled by a ''Ngola'', or king, who lived with his extended fami ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Convent Of Vilar De Frades
A convent is an enclosed community of monks, nuns, friars or religious sisters. Alternatively, ''convent'' means the building used by the community. The term is particularly used in the Catholic Church, Lutheran churches, and the Anglican Communion. Etymology and usage The term ''convent'' derives via Old French from Latin ''conventus'', perfect participle of the verb ''convenio'', meaning "to convene, to come together". It was first used in this sense when the eremitical life began to be combined with the cenobitical. The original reference was to the gathering of mendicants who spent much of their time travelling. Technically, a monastery is a secluded community of monastics, whereas a friary or convent is a community of mendicants (which, by contrast, might be located in a city), and a canonry is a community of canons regular. The terms abbey and priory can be applied to both monasteries and canonries; an abbey is headed by an abbot, and a priory is a lesser dependent house h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
