Trần Phế Đế
Trần Phế Đế 陳廢帝 | |||||||||||||
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Thăng Long, Đại Việt | |||||||||||||
Died | 6 December 1388 (aged 27) Thăng Long, Đại Việt | ||||||||||||
Burial | An Bài Sơn | ||||||||||||
Spouse | Queen Quang Loan | ||||||||||||
Issue | Prince Thuận Đức | ||||||||||||
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House | Trần dynasty | ||||||||||||
Father | Trần Duệ Tông | ||||||||||||
Mother | Dowager Empress Gia Từ | ||||||||||||
Religion | Buddhism |
Trần Phế Đế (6 March 1361 – 6 December 1388),
Background
Phế Đế (Deposed Emperor) was born in 1361 as Trần Hiện, second child of the Prince Cung Tuyên Trần Kính, then Emperor Trần Duệ Tông, and his wife Lady Lê, then Queen Gia Từ.[1] Initially, Duệ Tông wanted to make his first son Prince Chương Vũ Trần Vĩ crown prince but Trần Vĩ soon died during Duệ Tông's reign so Prince Kiến Đức Trần Hiện became the first in line of successor.[2]
In January 1377, after the
As emperor
Trần Phế Đế | |
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Vietnamese name | |
Hán-Nôm | 陳廢帝 |
Although being the Emperor of Đại Việt, Phế Đế was only a de jure ruler because it was regent Nghệ Tông who still held the real power.[3] According to Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư, Phế Đế was actually worse than his father, he had a weak and ignorant character which was profited by Hồ Quý Ly in his gradual control of royal court.[1]
After the major defeat of Duệ Tông at
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Hán-Nôm | 陳晛 |
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In May 1380, Trần's army under the command of Hồ Quý Ly had the first victory over Champa's troops in Thanh Hóa. After this point, general Đỗ Tử Bình resigned from the position of highest commander of Tran army and thus Hồ Quý Ly began to hold all civil and military power in royal court.[7] Despite another victory by the troops of general Nguyễn Đa Phương in February 1382, Trần Dynasty had to suffer a severe attack from Chế Bồng Nga in June 1383 which made Nghệ Tông fled from capital Thăng Long in spite of the begging advice to stay from his mandarins. This decision of Nghệ Tông was heavily criticized by the historian Ngô Sĩ Liên in his work Đại Việt sử kí toàn thư as a "coward decision".[3][9] In the northern border, Ming dynasty also began to expose their ambition of invading southern kingdoms like Đại Việt and Champa.[10]
Facing the unstoppable rise of Hồ Quý Ly in royal court, Phế Đế plotted with minister Trần Ngạc to reduce Hồ Quý Ly's power but Hồ Quý Ly already got ahead of this plot by a defamation campaign against the Emperor which ultimately made Nghệ Tông decide to dethrone and downgrade Phế Đế to Prince Linh Đức in December 1388.[11][12] Some loyal generals of Phế Đế tried to bring troops in royal palace to overturn this decision, but they were stopped by Phế Đế himself soon before his forced suicide by the order of Nghệ Tông. On December 27 of Lunar calendar, 1387, Nghệ Tông passed the throne to his youngest son Trần Ngung, now Trần Thuận Tông, who was only eleven. In the meantime, Hồ Quý Ly faction purged Phế Đế's supporters so that Hồ Quý Ly became the most powerful man in royal court.[13] After the coronation, Thuận Tông had Phế Đế buried at An Bài Mountain.[14]
Family
Trần Phế Đế had one wife, Queen Quang Loan, who was Nghệ Tông's daughter, and one son, Prince Thuận Đức.[15]
References
Notes
- ^ a b c Ngô Sĩ Liên 1993, p. 272
- ^ Ngô Sĩ Liên 1993, p. 267
- ^ a b c Chapuis 1995, p. 91
- ^ Ngô Sĩ Liên 1993, p. 270
- ISBN 9747534991
- ^ Ngô Sĩ Liên 1993, p. 273
- ^ a b Ngô Sĩ Liên 1993, p. 274
- ^ Ngô Sĩ Liên 1993, pp. 273–274
- ^ Ngô Sĩ Liên 1993, p. 275
- ^ Ngô Sĩ Liên 1993, pp. 276–278
- ^ Ngô Sĩ Liên 1993, pp. 278–279
- ^ Chapuis 1995, p. 94
- ^ Ngô Sĩ Liên 1993, pp. 279–280
- ^ Ngô Sĩ Liên 1993, p. 280
- ^ Ngô Sĩ Liên 1993, p. 279
Bibliography
- Ngô Sĩ Liên (1993), Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư (in Vietnamese) (Nội các quan bản ed.), Hanoi: Social Science Publishing House
- National Bureau for Historical Record (1998), Khâm định Việt sử Thông giám cương mục (in Vietnamese), Hanoi: Education Publishing House
- Trần Trọng Kim (1971), Việt Nam sử lược (in Vietnamese), Saigon: Center for School Materials
- Chapuis, Oscar (1995), A history of Vietnam: from Hong Bang to Tu Duc, Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 0-313-29622-7