Kiến Phúc (, 12 February 1869 – 31 July 1884) was a child emperor of Vietnam, who reigned for less than 8 months, 1883–1884, as the 7th
emperor
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of the
Nguyễn dynasty
The Nguyễn dynasty (, chữ Nôm: 茹阮, chữ Hán: 朝阮) was the last List of Vietnamese dynasties, Vietnamese dynasty, preceded by the Nguyễn lords and ruling unified Vietnam independently from 1802 until French protectorate in 1883 ...
.
Biography
Born in 1869, also known as Nguyễn Phúc Ưng Đăng, he was the nephew-turned-adopted son of Emperor
Tự Đức
Tự Đức (, vi-hantu, :wikt:嗣, 嗣:wikt:德, 德, , 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, and the country's la ...
. He
reigned for 7 months and 29 days (2 December 1883 – 31 July 1884).
Along with his cousin
Dục Đức and brother
Đồng Khánh, he had been taken in by Tự Đức who was unable to have children of his own. After the
regicide of Emperor
Hiệp Hoà, the court regents
Tôn Thất Thuyết and
Nguyễn Văn Tường acted quickly to install the fifteen-year-old prince as the new Emperor. Kiến Phúc was quickly enthroned on 1 December 1883 at five o'clock in the morning.
File:Lăng vua Kiến Phúc.JPG, Mausoleum of Kiến Phúc
File:Carte-postale-ancienne-viet-nam-annam-escaliers-tombeau-de-kieng-phuc-1908.jpg, Mausoleum in 1908
File:Temple de Kien Phuc.jpg, Mausoleum in 1908
Emperor Kiến Phúc was often hampered by poor health and died in Kiến Thành Palace on July 31, 1884 – less than 8 months after ascending the throne. His sudden death sparked rumors that the Emperor was poisoned by his adoptive mother, Tự Đức's Noble Consort
Học phi and regent Nguyễn Văn Tường for he knew of their secret affair.
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1868 births
1884 deaths
Child monarchs from Asia
Emperors of Nguyen Vietnam
Nguyen dynasty emperors
Monarchs who died as children
19th-century Vietnamese monarchs
Vietnamese monarchs