Hàm Nghi

Hàm Nghi ( 咸宜 )
Prince name	Nguyễn Phúc Ưng Lịch ( 阮 福 膺 (豆 歷) )
Personal name	Nguyễn Phúc Minh ( 阮福明 )
Born	August 3, 1871
Died	January 14, 1944
Term of office	August 2, 1884 to September 19, 1885 (unclear)
Ara designation	Hàm Nghi ( 咸宜 )
Temple name	-
Posthumous name	-
Resting place	Thonac , France
Era period	February 15, 1885 to September 18, 1885

Emperor Hàm Nghi ( Hán tự : 咸宜 ; born August 3, 1871 in Huế ; † January 14, 1944 in El Biar , Algeria ) was the eighth emperor of the Vietnamese Nguyễn dynasty . On August 2, 1884 he was enthroned as emperor and held this office effectively until July 4, 1885, formally but longer, possibly until his successor was enthroned on September 19, 1885. His real name was Nguygun Phúc Ưng Lịch, also Nguyễn Phúc Minh, he chose Hàm Nghi as the Era designation . His era under this motto began on February 15, 1885 and ended on September 18, 1885.

biography

Although Huế was born in the “violet forbidden city” , the future emperor - a younger brother of his predecessor in this office, Emperor Kiến Phúc - grew up in poor circumstances. After the murder of his imperial brother on August 1, 1884, the French chose the barely thirteen-year-old as a supposedly compliant successor. He was enthroned on August 2, 1884.

On July 4, 1885, the mandarin revolt broke out under the leadership of Nguyễn Văn Tường and Tôn Thất Thuyết . They stormed the palace and kidnapped Emperor Hàm Nghi along with three princesses. They were brought to the hills and jungles around Laos to wage a guerrilla war against the French occupying forces , for which the kidnapped emperor was supposed to be a symbolic figure. In order to withdraw this legitimation from the uprising, the French decided to replace him as emperor by his brother Nguyễn Phúc Ưng Kỷ, who was enthroned on September 19, 1885 and chose the Ärng Khánh era name .

Regardless of his kidnapping, Hàm Nghi made the insurgents' concern to drive out the French colonial rulers his own. To a greater extent than the mandarins that sparked the uprising, who were primarily concerned with their personal interests. However, after the insurgents suffered a series of setbacks and melted down, Hàm Nghi was betrayed by his bodyguard in 1888 and extradited to the French colonial regime. Since he was not ready to work with him, he was brought to Algeria on August 13, 1888 . There he married the French Algerian Marcelle Laloë (1884–1974) on November 4, 1904. They had three children, Princess Như Mai (1905–1999), Princess Như Lý (1908–2005) and Prince Minh Đức (1910–1980).

The Socialist Republic of Vietnam sent an embassy to France in 2000 to ask Princess Như Lý (Comtesse De La Besse) for permission to transfer her father's remains to the former imperial city of Huế. However, her family refused.

Web links

Commons : Emperor Hàm Nghi  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Hàm Nghi in a historical context (French)
• Un empereur aimé: Hàm Nghi (1871 - 1884 - 1944) (French, with pictures, including tombstone)