Kimpanzu

House of Kimpanzu
Mpanzu kanda
Parent houseHouse of Kinkanga
Country Kingdom of Kongo

Kingdom of Loango

Kingdom of Kakongo

Kingdom of Ngoyo

Kingdom of Ndongo
Founded27 February 1636; 388 years ago (27 February 1636)
FounderÁlvaro V
Final rulerPedro V
Titles
List
  • King of Kongo
  • King of Loango
  • King of Kakongo
  • King of Ngoyo
  • King on this side of the Zaire and beyond it
  • King of Nkondo
  • King of Mbamba-Lovata
  • Lord of the Ambundu
  • Lord of Angola
  • Lord of Aquisima
  • Lord of Musuru
  • Lord of Matamba
  • Lord of Malilu
  • Lord of Musuko
  • Lord of Anzizo
  • Lord of the conquest of Pangu-Alumbu
Deposition1764

The Kimpanzu were members of the Mpanzu kanda also known as the House of Kimpanzu, one of the lineages from which the kings of Kongo were chosen during the 17th century and following Kongo's reunification under Pedro IV. They are remembered in tradition and are evoked in a proverb, still current in the 1920s Nkutama a mvila za makanda "Kinlaza, Kimpanzu ye Kinlaza makukwa matatu malambila Kongo" (Kinkanga, Kimpanzu and Kinlaza are the three stones on which Kongo cooked).