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Moshoeshoe I (/ m ʊ ˈ ʃ w ɛ ʃ w ɛ /) (c. 1786 – 11 March 1870) was the first king of Lesotho. He was the first son of Mokhachane, a minor chief of the Bamokoteli lineage, a branch of the Koena (crocodile) clan. In his youth, he helped his father gain power over some other smaller clans. At the age of 34 Moshoeshoe formed his own clan ...
In 1820, King Moshoeshoe became the king of the Basotho Nation, who had fallen under his centralized authority due to competition for resources, which was intensified by a drought. [ 1 ] Morena e Moholo (the Great King), as he was called by his Basotho Nation, owned larger areas of Free State and accommodated the different ethnic groups of the ...
In 1992, Moshoeshoe II returned to Lesotho as a regular citizen until 1995 when King Letsie abdicated the throne in favor of his father. After Moshoeshoe II died in a car accident in 1996, King Letsie III ascended to the throne again. In 1993, a new constitution was implemented leaving the King without any executive authority and proscribing ...
The succession to the throne of Lesotho is laid down in Chapter V of the Constitution, which reads that: (1) The College of Chiefs may at any time designate, in accordance with the customary law of Lesotho, the person (or the persons, in order of prior right) who are entitled to succeed to the office of King upon the death of the holder of, or the occurrence of any vacancy in, that office and ...
Between 1856 and 1868 the Basotho engaged in conflict with the Orange Free State. [2] Their king, Moshoeshoe I, sought British protection. [2] On 29 August 1865, he wrote to Sir Philip Wodehouse, the Governor of Cape Colony: [2]
King Moshoeshoe I of Basutoland, with his ministers. The land of indigenous Khoi and Sotho people, Basutoland was positioned between the Cape Colony, Orange Free State, and Natal. Basutoland was annexed to Britain in 1868 as Moshoeshoe I, King of the Sotho, was threatened by Free State (Boer) encroachers. Three years later it was given to the ...
Moshoeshoe was born with the name Constantine Bereng Seeiso and was the descendant of the founder of the nation, Moshoeshoe I, which is where he got his royal name. [3] The young Seeiso was educated at the Roma College in Lesotho, then (apparently fleeing rumours that his stepfather planned to poison him) was sent to England, first to Ampleforth College and later to Corpus Christi College ...
Mopeli occupied a trusted position within Moshoeshoe I’s inner circle. He was a warrior and contributed during the Basotho wars with the Boers and other African tribes. He stayed for several years at Thaba Bosiu and was influenced by the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society, particularly Eugene Casalis.