# João I of Kongo

> King João I was the 5th ManiKongo of the Kingdom of Kongo between 1470 and 1509. After Portuguese sailors visited his kingdom, he voluntarily briefly converted to Catholicism. He was baptised on 3 May 1491 and took the Portuguese Christian name of João. Soon after, ManiKongo Nzinga-a-Nkuwu João I abandoned the new faith in 1495 for a number of reasons, one of them being the Catholic Church's requirement of monogamy. Politically, he could not afford to abandon polygamy and embrace monogamy, a cultural shift that the king could not contemplate as power in Kongo was elective, rather than hereditary as in Europe; as Kongo culture followed a matrilineality structure, where the elder son of the king is not automatically the next king.

*King of Kongo*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/joao-i-of-kongo

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Historical Figure ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645))
- **Category:** Historical Figures
- **Born:** 1440
- **Died:** 1506
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 50.9 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.0 / 100  (trend: FALLING)
- **Historical depth:** 19.7 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 0.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 60.0 / 100

## Sources
- [Wikiquote](https://pl.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nzinga_Nkuwu)
- [Нзінга Нкуву](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B7%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B0_%D0%9D%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%B2%D1%83)
- [Joan I del Congo](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_I_del_Congo)
- [Nzinga Nkuwu](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nzinga_Nkuwu)
- [João I.](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_I.)
- [João I of Kongo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_I_of_Kongo)
- [Nzinga Nkuwu](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nzinga_Nkuwu)
- [Nzinga Nkuwu](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nzinga_Nkuwu)
- [Նկուվու Նզինգա](https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%86%D5%AF%D5%B8%D6%82%D5%BE%D5%B8%D6%82_%D5%86%D5%A6%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%A3%D5%A1)
- [João I dari Kongo](https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_I_dari_Kongo)
- [Giovanni I del Congo](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_I_del_Congo)
- [ジョアン1世 (コンゴ王)](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B31%E4%B8%96_(%E3%82%B3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B4%E7%8E%8B))
- [Nzinga Nkuwu](https://kg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nzinga_Nkuwu)
- [주앙 1세 (콩고)](https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%A3%BC%EC%95%99_1%EC%84%B8_(%EC%BD%A9%EA%B3%A0))
- [Nzinga Nkuwu](https://ln.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nzinga_Nkuwu)
- [João I van Kongo](https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_I_van_Kongo)
- [João I av Kongo](https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_I_av_Kongo)
- [Nzinga Nkuwu](https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nzinga_Nkuwu)
- [João I do Congo](https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_I_do_Congo)
- [Нзинга а Нкуву](https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%B0_%D0%B0_%D0%9D%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%B2%D1%83)
- [João I av Kongo](https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_I_av_Kongo)
- [Nzinga Nkuwu](https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nzinga_Nkuwu)
- [Жуан I (маніконго)](https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D1%83%D0%B0%D0%BD_I_(%D0%BC%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B3%D0%BE))
- [João I của Kongo](https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo%C3%A3o_I_c%E1%BB%A7a_Kongo)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1522957)

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