Álvaro X Nimi a Mvemba Água Rosada was a ruler of Kibangu and was the first Água Rosada
claimant
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to the throne of the
Kingdom of Kongo
The Kingdom of Kongo ( or ''Wene wa Kongo;'' ) was a kingdom in Central Africa. It was located in present-day northern Angola, the western portion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, southern Gabon and the Republic of the Congo. At its gre ...
during its
civil war
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. He ruled the Kingdom of Kibangu from 1688 to 1695.
Rule
During the reign of the previous King of Kibangu, Álvaro and his brother led a faction that was unsatisfied by his rule. They managed to overthrow
Manuel I in 1688 and Álvaro took the throne. During his reign, the king was able to keep the forces of the other two claimants to the Kingdom of Kongo at bay. The king was the first civil war claimant to Kongo to be of the Água Rosada house where there was a parent from each of the main houses of
Kinlaza and
Kimpanzu.
[Thornton, John K: "The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706", page 20. Cambridge University, 1998] This was not a real house at the time of Álvaro's rule, and was only after his death in 1695 when his successor,
Pedro IV formed it as a house to end the civil war and reform the Kingdom of Kongo.
References
Kingdom of Kongo
1695 deaths
Year of birth unknown
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