Ngô Xương Ngập ( vi-hantu, 吳昌岌, died 954), formally King of Thiên Sách (天策王), was a co-ruler of the

Ngô dynasty The Ngô dynasty (; Chữ Nôm: 茹吳), officially Tĩnh Hải quân (chữ Hán: 靜海軍), was a semi-independent Vietnamese dynasty from 939 to 968. The dynasty was founded by Ngô Quyền, who led the Vietnamese forces in the Battle of B ...

of Vietnam. He was the eldest son of

Ngô Quyền Ngô Quyền ( vi-hantu, 吳權) (April 17, 898 – February 14, 944), often referred to as Tiền Ngô Vương (前吳王; "First King of Ngô"), was a warlord who later became the founding king of the Ngô dynasty of Vietnam. He reigned fro ...

, the dynastic founder. Ngô Quyền named

Dương Tam Kha Dương Tam Kha (wikt:楊, 楊wikt:三, 三wikt:哥, 哥), formally King Bình of Dương (wikt:楊, 楊wikt:平, 平wikt:王, 王), later known as the Duke of Chương Dương (章陽公) (died 10 August 980), was king of the Ngô dynasty from 9 ...

as regent for his nephew, Ngô Xương Ngập, on his deathbed in 944. However, after Ngô Quyền's death, Dương Tam Kha forced Ngập to abdicate and installed himself as ruler and arguably as being the rightful successor to his father,

Dương Đình Nghệ Dương Đình Nghệ (Chữ Hán: 楊廷藝; pinyin: ''Yáng Tíngyì''; 874 – March 937; some sources record Dương Diên Nghệ, Chữ Hán: 楊延藝) was the jiedushi of Tĩnh Hải quân in around 931 AD. He was a skillful, talented gen ...

. The ousted Ngô Xương Ngập fled to Trà Hưong village, Nam Sách, and was hidden under the protection of his retainer, Phạm Lệnh Công. Dương Tam Kha sent

Đỗ Cảnh Thạc Đỗ Cảnh Thạc ( vi-hantu, 杜景碩, 912–967), formally Duke Cảnh (景公), was a warlord of Vietnam during the Period of the 12 Warlords. Đỗ Cảnh Thạc was a Chinese from Guangling (in modern Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province). I ...

and

Dương Cát Lợi Dương (楊, ) is a Vietnamese surname, an estimated 1% of the Vietnamese population shares the last name. In transcription it is a Chinese family name or given name of Yang. The name is also transliterated as Yang in Korean and Yeung or Young ...

to arrest him, which made Phạm Lệnh Công afraid and went into hiding inside a cave. In 950, Dương Tam Kha was dethroned by Ngập's younger brother, Prince Ngô Xương Văn in a counter coup d'état. Prince Văn then crowned himself as Nam Tấn Vương (King of Nam Tấn), and summoned his ousted brother Ngập to return to the capital, Cổ Loa. Ngô Xương Văn then appointed Ngập as a co-ruler and was titled as Thiên Sách Vương (King of Thiên Sách).''

Việt Nam sử lược ( vi-hantu, 越南史略, , lit. "Outline History of Vietnam"), was the first history text published in the Vietnamese language and the Vietnamese alphabet. It was compiled by Vietnamese historian Trần Trọng Kim. It covered the period from ...

'', Quyển 1, Phần 3, Chương 1 It was called ''Một nước, Hai vua'' ("one country, two kings") in Vietnamese history. Both ruling brothers was known as Hậu Ngô Vương (後吳王). However, the returned Ngập managed to overtake his younger brother's authority by reclaiming himself as the rightful crown prince where he gained support from leading court officials. Ngô Xương Ngập became the de facto ruler and held the real power and relegated his brother Văn as a nominal co-ruler who held mainly ceremonial duties and abstained from active political affairs or military campaigns until Ngập's death in 954.''

Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư The ''Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư'' ( vi-hantu, 大越史記全書; ; ''Complete Annals of Đại Việt'') is the official national chronicle of the Đại Việt, that was originally compiled by the royal historian Ngô Sĩ Liên under ...

'', Peripheral Records vol. 5 Ngập died during consensual sex in 954. He had two sons mentioned in history records:

Ngô Xương Xí Ngô Xương Xí ( vi-hantu, 吳昌熾, ?–968) was a Ngô dynasty crown prince and warlord of Vietnam during the Period of the 12 Warlords. Xí was a son of King Ngô Xương Ngập, a co-ruler of Ngô dynasty. In 965, when his uncle, ...

, one of

Twelve Warlords The Anarchy of the 12 Warlords (, chữ Nôm: 亂𨑮𠄩使君; Sino-Vietnamese: ''Thập nhị sứ quân chi loạn'', chữ Hán: 十二使君之亂), also the Period of the 12 Warlords, was a period of chaos and civil war in the history of ...

;

Khuông Việt Ngô Chân Lưu ( vi-hantu, 吳真流, 933–1011), title Khuông Việt (), was a Vietnamese Buddhist monk A monk (; from , ''monachos'', "single, solitary" via Latin ) is a man who is a member of a religious order and lives in a monastery. ...

(Ngô Chân Lưu), an important Buddhist monk and politician during the rule of Đinh family.

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