father predecessor successor succession house mother death_date consort regent birth_date coronation article_title name reign
ndvungunye ndvungunye mswati ii king of swaziland house of dlamini queen somnjalose simelane 1836 tsandzile ndwandwe tsandzile ndwandwe queen lojiba simelane queen lojiba simelane 1780 1815 sobhuza i
 sobhuza i 1815 -- 1836
sobhuza i

sobhuza i -lrb- also known as ngwane iv , somhlolo -rrb- -lrb- ca. 1780 -- 1836 -rrb- was king of swaziland , from 1815 to 1836 .
born around 1780 , his father was ndvungunye -lrb- also known as `` zikodze '' -rrb- , and his mother was somnjalose simelane .
he was called somhlolo , `` the wonder , '' upon his birth because his father ndvungunye died as a result of being struck by lightning .
when sobhuza was king , lojiba simelane instead of his mother somnjalose was queen mother because somnjalose was an `` inhlanti '' or support bride to lojiba .
somhlolo is a greatly revered king of swaziland .
he had his first royal capital or kraal at zombodze in the shiselweni region , but moved it north to new zombodze in central swaziland .
swazis celebrate somhlolo day every september 6 as their independence day and the national stadium is named somhlolo stadium .
sobhuza was succeeded by his son mswati ii and his wife tsandzile ndwandwe as queen mother after a short regency by queen lojiba simelane .
sobhuza by the time of his death a conquered a country claimed to be reaching modern day barberton in the north , carolina in the west , pongola river in the south and lubombo mountains in the east .
