Đồng Khánh
Emperor Đồng Khánh, (born: Nguyễn Phúc Ưng Kỷ; 19 February 1864; died 28 January 1889) was the ninth emperor of the Nguyễn Dynasty of Vietnam. He reigned three years between 1885 and 1889, and was considered one of the most despised emperors of his era.
Đồng Khánh's birthname was Nguyễn Cảnh Tông. He was the son of Prince Nguyễn Phúc Hồng Cai, but because his uncle, Emperor Tự Đức, had no children, he was adopted and made the Duke of Kiên Giang. Đồng Khánh, however, did not succeed to the throne until four others, Dục Đức, Hiệp Hoà, Kiến Phúc and Hàm Nghi were all enthroned, and removed in the year after the death of Tự Đức.
Đồng Khánh came to the throne because of the events of 4 July 1885, when the regent, Tôn Thất Thuyết, kidnapped the young Emperor Hàm Nghi from the "Purple Forbidden City" of Huế, and took him to the mountains as the figurehead of a revolutionary movement against the French. To take away the legitimacy of Hàm Nghi, the French enthroned Nguyễn Cảnh Tông, who took the era name of "Đồng Khánh".
Madame Nhu, the First Lady of South Vietnam from 1955–63, was a great-granddaughter of Đồng Khánh.[1][2][3][4]
| Đồng Khánh | |
| Vietnamese name | |
|---|---|
| Vietnamese | Đồng Khánh |
| Hán-Nôm | 同慶 |
| Birth name | |
| Vietnamese alphabet | Nguyễn Phúc Ưng Kỷ |
|---|---|
| Hán-Nôm | 阮福膺祺 |
References
- ↑ http://www.4dw.net/royalark/Vietnam/annam9.htm
- ↑ Erica J. Peters - Appetites and Aspirations in Vietnam: 2011 "His dramatic embrace of Western grand cuisine met with the approval of his French overlords, though whether other Vietnamese saw Đồng Khánh as manipulating the French or as a puppet depended on their own political perspective."
- ↑ Vietnamese Royal Exile in Japan - Page 27 "Meanwhile, Đồng Khánh assumed the throne after Hàm Nghi vas removed from power. To some degree Đồng Khánh benefited from French efforts to restore Some prestige to the Vietnamese monarchy, the demise of which was one of the ..."
- ↑ Christian Culas, François Robinne Inter-Ethnic Dynamics in Asia: Considering the Other 2009 "EMPEROR ĐồNG KHÁNH'S DESCRIPTIVE GEOGRAPHY (1888) Another important source written in characters on the ethnic populations of northern Vietnam is the Emperor Đồng Khánh's Descriptive Geography (Ngô Duc Tho, Nguyên Văn .
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| Đồng Khánh Nguyễn Dynasty Born: 19 February 1864 Died: 28 January 1889 | ||
| Regnal titles | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Hàm Nghi |
Emperor of Vietnam 1885–1889 |
Succeeded by Thành Thái |