Nguyễn Phúc Miên Trinh ( vi-hantu, 阮福綿寊, 3 February 1820 – 18 November 1897), born Nguyễn Phúc Thư (阮福書), was a prince of

Nguyễn dynasty The Nguyễn dynasty (chữ Nôm: 茹阮, vi, Nhà Nguyễn; chữ Hán: 阮朝, vi, Nguyễn triều) was the last Vietnamese dynasty, which ruled the unified Vietnamese state largely independently from 1802 to 1883. During its existence, ...

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Life

Miên Trinh was the eleventh son of

Minh Mạng Minh Mạng () or Minh Mệnh (, vi-hantu, 明命, lit. "the bright favour of Heaven"; 25 May 1791 – 20 January 1841; born Nguyễn Phúc Đảm, also known as Nguyễn Phúc Kiểu) was the second emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty of V ...

, and his mother was Lê Thị Ái. He was intelligent and liked studying, so Minh Mạng was very fond of him. He was appointed Right Director of

Imperial Clan Court The Imperial Clan Court or Court of the Imperial Clan was an institution responsible for all matters pertaining to the imperial family under the Ming and Qing dynasties of imperial China. This institution also existed under the Nguyễn dynasty o ...

( 尊人府右尊正) in 1882. After

Tự Đức Tự Đức (, vi-hantu, 嗣德, lit. "inheritance of virtues", 22 September 1829 – 19 July 1883) (personal name: Nguyễn Phúc Hồng Nhậm , also Nguyễn Phúc Thì) was the fourth emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty of Vietnam; he ruled ...

's death, he was granted the title Tuy Lý Vương (綏理王 "Prince of Tuy Lý") and named as regent together with Nguyễn Phúc Miên Định (Prince of Thọ Xuân) to assist the new emperor. He lost power in the political struggle against

Nguyễn Văn Tường Nguyễn Văn Tường ( vi-hantu, , 1824–1886) was a mandarin of the Nguyễn dynasty in Vietnam. He is known for installing and dethroning three emperors in 1883–84: Dục Đức, Hiệp Hoà, and Kiến Phúc. Biography Tường ...

and

Tôn Thất Thuyết Tôn Thất Thuyết ( 尊室説; 12 May 1839 in Huế – 1913 in Longzhou) was the leading mandarin of Emperor Tự Đức of Vietnam's Nguyễn dynasty. Thuyết later led the Cần Vương movement which aimed to restore Vietnamese ind ...

, and sought refuge in French barracks, but was taken back to

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by the French. Tường and Thuyết threw him into prison and later exiled him to Quảng Ngãi Province. In 1885, Tôn Thất Thuyết launched a failed uprising against the French colonists, and escaped from

together with Emperor

Hàm Nghi Emperor Hàm Nghi (, vi-hantu, lit. "entirely right", ar, هام نغي; 3 August 1872 – 4 January 1943), personal name Nguyễn Phúc Ưng Lịch, also Nguyễn Phúc Minh, was the eighth emperor of the Vietnamese Nguyễn dynasty. He reign ...

. During the emperor's absence, Miên Định was appointed as puppet "Prince Regent" () by French general

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.''

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'', Quyển 2, Cận kim thời đại, Chương 14 Miên Trinh and Miên Triện (Prince of Hoằng Hóa) were allowed to come back to Huế. In 1889, Emperor

Thành Thái Thành Thái (, vi-hantu, 成泰; 14 March 1879 – 20 March 1954) born Nguyễn Phúc Bửu Lân (阮福寶嶙), was the son of Emperor Dục Đức and Empress Dowager Từ Minh. He reigned as emperor for 18 years, from 1889 to 1907. Biogr ...

ascended the throne, and Miên Trinh was again appointed as regent. He died in 1897, and received the

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Đoan Cung (端恭). Miên Trinh fathered 77 sons and 37 daughters. His 18th son was poet Hồng Thiết, whose son Ưng Bình was also a poet. Miên Trinh also had two famous great-grandsons:

Bửu Lộc Prince Nguyễn Phúc Bửu Lộc, (22 August 1914 – 27 February 1990), was an uncle of Emperor Bảo Đại, and Prime Minister of the State of Vietnam in 1954.Oscar Chapuis The Last Emperors of Vietnam: From Tu Duc to Bao Dai 2000 p157 "On Jan ...

, a politician; Bửu Hội, a diplomat and scientist.

As a poet

Miên Trinh was good at writing

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. Emperor

, set a high value on his poetry: " Former Han proses are not worth comparing with those written by '' Siêu'' and '' Quát''; (the quality of) High Tang poetry are surpassed by those written by '' Tùng'' and ''Tuy''" (

Classical Chinese Classical Chinese, also known as Literary Chinese (古文 ''gǔwén'' "ancient text", or 文言 ''wényán'' "text speak", meaning "literary language/speech"; modern vernacular: 文言文 ''wényánwén'' "text speak text", meaning "literar ...

: ; vi, Văn như Siêu, Quát vô tiền Hán; Thi đáo Tùng, Tuy thất thịnh Đường). He and

Nguyễn Phúc Miên Thẩm Nguyễn Phúc Miên Thẩm ( vi-hantu, 阮福綿審, 11 December 1819 – 1 April 1870), courtesy name ''Trọng Uyên'' (仲淵), pseudonym ''Bạch Hào Tử'' (白毫子), was a prince of Nguyễn dynasty, Vietnam. Life Born Nguyễn Ph� ...

(Prince of Tùng Thiện), Nguyễn Phúc Miên Bửu (Prince of Tương An), were known as "Tam Đường" (三堂) of Nguyễn dynasty. Miên Trinh was a member of ''Mạc Vân thi xã'' ("Mạc Vân Poetry Society"). Nguyễn Phúc Miên Định (Prince of Thọ Xuân), Nguyễn Phúc Miên Thủ (Prince of Hàm Thuận), Nguyễn Phúc Miên Thẩm (Prince of Tùng Thiện), Nguyễn Phúc Miên Bửu (Prince of Tương An), Nguyễn Phúc Miên Triện (Prince of Hoằng Hóa), Nguyễn Văn Siêu,

Cao Bá Quát Cao Bá Quát (, 1809–1855) was a Vietnamese poet and revolutionary who led a peasant uprising against Emperor Tự Đức. He was either executed or killed in battle. Many of his poems were destroyed, but about 1400 (most written in Han Tu) su ...

, Hà Tôn Quyền,

Phan Thanh Giản Phan Thanh Giản ( vi-hantu, ; , November 11, 1796– August 4, 1867) was a Grand Counsellor at the Nguyễn court in Vietnam. He led an embassy to France in 1863, and committed suicide when France completed the invasion of Southern Vietnam ...

and Nguyễn Đăng Giai were also members of this poetry society.Hoằng Hóa Quận Vương Miên Triện - thân sinh của Đạm Phương nữ sử
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