Nguyễn Kim

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Nguyễn Kim (* 1467; † 1545) was a mandarin and military leader in Vietnam . He started a civil war against the usurper and dynasty founder Mạc Đăng Dung with the aim of reestablishing the Lê dynasty . He was the head of the family of the Nguyễn clans, which later became the last imperial line of the Nguyễn dynasty .

origin

Nguyen Kim came from the already prominent Nguyen family, who came from Tay Do near Thanh Hóa . His father Nguyen Hoang Du was a general in the service of the Lê dynasty .

Political activity

Nguyen Kim served as a mandarin in the Lê Dynasty administration . Shortly after Mac Dang Dung came to power, Nguyen Kim gathered his family and their vassals and set out for Laos in 1529 , where they were accepted as vassals at the court of the king of Lan Chang Pho Thisarath I. The suppression of loyalist uprisings in the national territory of the Mac ensured that the number of exiles around Nguyen Kim grew. In 1533 he proclaimed a grown son of Lê Chiêu Tông to be the ruler against the Mac dynasty. In 1539 Nguyen Kim sent his general Trịnh Kiểm to wage war against the Mac on Vietnamese territory. Nguyen Kim also sent a diplomatic delegation to the court of the Ming Dynasty and unsuccessfully asked for help against the opponents in the civil war. In 1543 the Ngyuen were able to bring the entire province of Thanh Hoa and other areas under their rule.

Nguyen Kim was poisoned in 1545 by a defected general of the Mac Dynasty near Hoa Lư . After his death, his general Trinh Kiem became the leader of the war party against the Mac dynasty. He had Nguyen Kim's eldest son murdered and tried to eliminate all rivals for his position of power. However, the surviving son Nguyễn Hoàng , who had to flee from Trinh Kiem, was able to establish his own territory as the power base of his family in the southern territory of the Dai Viet.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ KW Taylor: A History of the Vietnamese. Cambridge, 2013. pp. 230-232
  2. ^ A b William J. Duiker, Bruce Lockhart: Historical Dictionary of Vietnam. Lanham, 2006, pp. 266f, pp. 271f
  3. ^ A b K. W. Taylor: A History of the Vietnamese. Cambridge, 2013. pp. 242-244
personal data
SURNAME Nguyon, Kim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Vietnamese mandarin and statesman
DATE OF BIRTH 1467
DATE OF DEATH 1545