Letsie II Lerotholi (Letsienyane) (1867–1913),

paramount chief A paramount chief is the English-language designation for a king or queen or the highest-level political leader in a regional or local polity or country administered politically with a Chiefdom, chief-based system. This term is used occasionally ...

Basuto The Sotho (), also known as the Basotho (), are a Sotho-Tswana peoples, Sotho-Tswana ethnic group indigenous to Southern Africa. They primarily inhabit the regions of Lesotho, South Africa, Botswana and Namibia. The ancestors of the Sotho peo ...

(later

Lesotho Lesotho, formally the Kingdom of Lesotho and formerly known as Basutoland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Entirely surrounded by South Africa, it is the largest of only three sovereign enclave and exclave, enclaves in the world, t ...

) from 1905 to 1913. Letsienyane was the son of

Lerotholi Lerotholi Letsie (c. 1836–1905) was the paramount chief of Basotho (modern Lesotho) from November 20, 1891 to August 19, 1905. Letsie is one of the chiefs whom led the 1880 Basuto Gun War, Basotho gun war which ended in basotho victory and indep ...

. He became the ruler upon the death of

in 1905, but took little interest in government. He was succeeded by his brother,

Nathaniel Griffith Lerotholi Nathaniel Griffith Lerotholi (1870 – 23 June 1939) was the paramount chief of Basutoland Basutoland was a British Crown colony that existed from 1884 to 1966 in present-day Lesotho, bordered with the Cape Colony, Natal Colony and Orange Ri ...

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