Prince Godefroid Kamatari (1957 – 20 August 2005) was a grandson of ''
Mwami
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''
Mutaga IV Mbikije of Burundi, and a son of Prince
Ignace Kamatari (d. 1964 in
Bujumbura
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) and his second wife Princess Agrippine.
Prince Kamatari led the
Abahuza party in Burundi, which advocates a return of a
constitutional monarchy
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in Burundi, as a stabilising factor in its bloody history. Most of the exiled members of the royal family live in
France
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and elsewhere in
Europe
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.
He died in
Kigali
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,
Rwanda
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on 20 August 2005.
Siblings
By first wife
Prince Kamatari had 2
half sisters born to his father's first wife Princess Ndaribarire and Ntihabose Ciza:
* Princess Catherine Kamatari (by his father's first wife Princess Ndaribarire), (Born 1932)
* Prince Deogratias Kamatari (by Ntihabose Ciza - Umusumano Clan), (Born 1942)
By subsequent wives
Prince Godefroid's other Siblings are:
Prince Pascal Kamatari (by his mother Princess Agrippine), (1949-1997) Was married to Mimi von der Recke.
Princess Esther Kamatari (Born 1951)
Prince Louis Kamatari, (Born 1953)
Princess Baudouine Kamatari, (Born 1955)
Princess Fabiola Kamatari, (Born 1961)
References
Kamatari, Godefroid
Kamatari, Godefroid
Burundian royalty
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