Kiến Phúc

Kiến Phúc ( 建 福 )
Prince name	Nguyễn Phúc Ưng Đăng ( 阮 福 膺 登 )
Personal name	Nguyễn Phúc Hạo ( 阮福昊 )
Born	February 12, 1868
Died	August 1, 1884
Term of office	December 1, 1883 to July 31, 1884
Ara designation	Kiến Phúc ( 建 福 )
Temple name	Giản Tông ( 簡 宗 )
Posthumous name	Nghị Hoàng Đế ( 毅 皇帝 )
Resting place	Lăng Tự Ðức
Era period	January 27, 1884 to February 15, 1885

Emperor Kiến Phúc ( Hán tự : 建 福 ; * February 12, 1868 in Huế ; † August 1, 1884 ibid) was the seventh emperor of the Vietnamese Nguyễn dynasty . On December 2, 1883 he was enthroned as emperor and held this office until his death. His real name was Nguyễn Phúc Ưng Đăng, also Nguyễn Phúc Hạo, he chose "Kiến Phúc" as an acronym . His era under this motto began on January 27, 1884 and ended on February 15, 1885.

Life

The childless fourth emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty Tự Đức , in addition to his later successor Dục Đức and the then ninth emperor of the dynasty, Đồng Khánh , also adopted his nephew Nguyễn Phúc Ưng Đăng, who later chose the era name "Kiến Phúc" as emperor. After the assassination of the sixth emperor of the dynasty, Hiệp Hòa , on November 29, 1883, the imperial court acted quickly to establish the fifteen-year-old prince as the new emperor. Kiến Phúc was enthroned on December 1, 1883 at five in the morning.

Kiến Phúc's predecessor had been arrested and murdered while the representative of France, Louis Eugène Palasme de Champeaux, was not in Huế . When he returned, he protested against the hasty coronation of the new monarch and because France had not been consulted. Champeaux relied on the Harmond Treaty signed by Emperor Hiệp Hòa , although this did not give France any legal influence on the imperial succession. The excuse of the Vietnamese rulers that the document would no longer be valid after the death of the Emperor Hiệp Hòa was not accepted by the French, who were mainly angry because they - probably rightly - assumed that Hiệp Hòa was primarily because of him Indulgence to them had been murdered. After France had demonstrated its military strength, the two remaining regents bowed quickly and officially asked for Kiến Phúcs to be recognized as the new emperor.

Despite his brief reign, Emperor Kiến Phúc was able to show that he could have become an effective and sincere "Son of Heaven". However, he was in poor health and had the corrupt rulers Nguyễn Văn Tường (阮文祥; 1824–1886) and Tôn Thất Thuyết (尊 室 説; 1839–1913) next to him. The emperor's adoptive mother, Học Phi , and her secret liaison, the regent Nguyễn Văn Tường, had the greatest influence . When the emperor discovered the liaison of the two, he was furious and declared: "If I get well, I will chop off your heads until the third generation." They got ahead of him. Học Phi mixed poison into the emperor's medicine - or so it is assumed - and Kiến Phúc died on August 1, 1884. Early in the following year the head of the imperial family council, Prince Gia Hưng , began a secret investigation into the death of Emperor Kiến Phúc. When Tôn Thất Thuyết found out about this, the prince was exiled and disappeared.