Conflitos da dinastia Guterres através da sua cronologia

Abstract

The study of the conflicts in the Kingdom of Jinga during the Dynasty Guterres can't dispense the chronology of this Dynasty. The Author, based on the information of historians as Cadornega, Cavazzi and others, and on documents in the Archives of Portugal and Angola, reconstitutes the series of Kings of Angola that belong to the Dinasty Guterres and ruled Jinga for about a century. The A. orderly identifies the Kings and establishes the chronology of their reigns, in order to help the historians with their works. On the other hand he gives the young people who are studying the History of Angola, a nomenclature that includes the Kings of the XVII and XVIII centuries, who are probably unfamiliar or unknown to them. Dinasty Guterres begins in 1669 with the election of Dom João I (D. João Guterres Ngola Kanini), descendant of Ngola Kiluanji I, a king of the Protohistory of Angola. The A., based on his unpublished texts, does the genealogical and chronological study of the Kings that followed D. João I. Dona Ana III was the last queen called Guterres; she died in a 'coup d'état' in 1767. After this date the Kingdom of Jinga was divided into two ones, the largest ruled by Dom Francisco II (D. Francisco Kaluete ka Mbandi), nephew of the dead Queen, and the other, around the River Kuanza Islands, ruled by Dona Kamana, daughter of the Queen D. Ana III. About 1810 their reigns were over, and D. Kamana's son, Ndala a Kamana, was elected the only king of Jinga. He ruled the unified country till about 1833. Although these last Kings were descendants of D. João I, they didn't have the surname Guterres, that until then was essential to the right of the Jinga's royalty. (Translated by Maria Antónia Sampaio)