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Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi

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Coronation
  
16 December 1915

Mother
  
Princess Ngenzahago

Predecessor
  
Mutaga IV Mbikije

Name
  
Mwambutsa Bangiriceng

House
  
Ntwero

Successor
  
Ntare V of Burundi

Father
  
Mutaga IV Mbikije


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Reign
  
16 December 1915 – 8 July 1966

Died
  
April 26, 1977, Geneva, Switzerland

Children
  
Prince Louis Rwagasore, Ntare V of Burundi, Rosa Paula Iribagiza

Parents
  
Princess Ngenzahago, Mutaga IV Mbikije of Burundi

Grandchildren
  
Princess Jolie Ndizeye, Princess Noelle Ndizeye

Similar People
  
Prince Louis Rwagasore, Ntare V of Burundi, Rosa Paula Iribagiza, Mwezi IV Gisabo of Burundi, Mutaga IV Mbikije of Burundi

Mwambutsa IV Bangiricenge (6 May 1912–26 March 1977) was king (mwami) of Burundi who ruled between 1915 and 1966. He succeeded to the throne on the death of his father Mutaga IV Mbikije (r. 1908–15). Born while Burundi was under German colonial rule, Mwambutsa's reign mostly coincided with Belgian colonial rule (1916–62). The Belgians retained the monarchs of both Rwanda and Burundi under the policy of indirect rule.

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Biography

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Mwambutsa IV was born Prince Bangiricenge in c. 1912. Like other Burundian kings, he was an ethnic Ganwa (Tutsi). He became king, taking the regnal name Mwambutsa, on 16 December 1915 when he was still an infant following the death of his father in a family dispute. Because of his age, a regency was declared. Several family members, including the Queen Mother Ririkumutima, served as regent. At the time of his coronation, Burundi was part of German East Africa but was captured by Belgium in 1916 during the East African Campaign in World War I. In 1925, a full regency council was established with Belgian approval. Mwambutsa became a ruler in his own right on 28 August 1929.

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On the independence of Burundi in July 1962, Mwambutsa IV became the head of state of Burundi with far reaching political power. In Rwanda, the monarchy had been overthrown between 1959–62. He attempted to balance ethnic tensions between ethnic Hutu and Tutsi subjects by choosing his Prime Ministers from each ethnic group alternately. In October 1965, Hutu officers attempted a coup d'état against the monarchy. Despite their failure to take power, Mwambutsa fled into exile in the Republic of the Congo, eventually moving to Switzerland. In March 1966 he designated his only surviving son to exercise his powers on the spot. Still in exile, Mwambutsa was officially deposed in a second coup d'état and brought his son to power as Ntare V on 8 July 1966. The monarchy was finally abolished altogether in a third coup in November 1966 and its leader, Michel Micombero, came to power as president and de facto dictator. Mwambutsa spent the rest of his life in Switzerland where he died in 1977.

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Mwambuta's remains were exhumed from their burial site in Switzerland in 2012 with a view to repatriating them to Burundi for a state funeral. After a legal battle, however, the remains were re-interred in Switzerland in 2016 in accordance with his family's wishes.


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References

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