Pedro IV Agua Rosada Nsamu a Mvemba of Kibangu

Pedro IV Agua Rosada Nsamu a Mvemba was a king of Kongo, a historical kingdom in west-central Africa. He reigned from 1696 to 1718. During his rule, Kongo was experiencing significant internal conflict and civil wars following the Battle of Mbwila in 1665, which led to the death of the reigning king and the division of the kingdom among rival factions.1

Pedro IV played a key role in negotiating an agreement that recognized the territorial divisions while rotating the kingship among them. He also faced challenges from a religious movement led by Beatriz Kimpa Vita, who occupied the former capital of Mbanza Kongo. Pedro IV had Beatriz tried and executed as a heretic before reoccupying the capital and restoring the kingdom in 1709. The rotational system of kingship he helped establish continued into the 18th century.1