| Emperor Đồng Khánh 同慶帝 | |||||||||||||||||
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 Emperor Đồng Khánh on throne in coronation day | |||||||||||||||||
| Emperor of Đại Nam under French protectorate ofAnnam andTonkin | |||||||||||||||||
| Reign | 19 September 1885 – 28 January 1889 | ||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | Hàm Nghi | ||||||||||||||||
| Successor | Thành Thái | ||||||||||||||||
| Emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty | |||||||||||||||||
| Reign | 19 September 1885 – 28 January 1889 | ||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | Hàm Nghi | ||||||||||||||||
| Successor | Thành Thái | ||||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 February 1864 Imperial City of Huế,Đại Nam | ||||||||||||||||
| Died | 28 January 1889(1889-01-28) (aged 24) Càn Thành hall (乾成殿),Imperial City of Huế,Annam,French Indochina | ||||||||||||||||
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| Spouse | 11 concubines | ||||||||||||||||
| Issue | 9 including 6 sons and 3 daughter princeNguyễn Phúc Bửu Đảo | ||||||||||||||||
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| House | Nguyễn Phúc | ||||||||||||||||
| Father | Nguyễn Phúc Hồng Cai (son ofThiệu Trị) | ||||||||||||||||
| Mother | ConcubineBùi Thị Thanh | ||||||||||||||||
| Religion | Ruism,Buddhism | ||||||||||||||||
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Đồng Khánh (Hanoi:[ɗəwŋ͡m˨˩xajŋ̟˧˦],chữ Hán:同慶, lit. "collective celebration"; 19 February 1864 – 28 January 1889), bornNguyễn Phúc Ưng Kỷ (阮福膺祺) orNguyễn Phúc Ưng Đường (阮福膺禟), also known asChánh Mông (正蒙), was the ninthemperor of theNguyễn dynasty ofVietnam. He reigned four years between 1885 and 1889. His royal temple name was Cảnh Tông (景宗).
Đồng Khánh was born on 19 February 1864 in theImperial City of Huế. His childhood name wasChánh Mông because he was brought up in Chánh Mông palace. Đồng Khánh was the eldest son of PrinceNguyễn Phúc Hồng Cai, a son of emperorThiệu Trị, and his concubine Bùi Thị Thanh.
As his uncle, EmperorTự Đức, had no children, Đồng Khánh was adopted and given the titleKiên Giang quận công (Duke ofKiên Giang).
After the French armies captured the city ofHuế and theImperial city fell to the French, the court regentsNguyễn Văn Tường andTôn Thất Thuyết took the young EmperorHàm Nghi and escaped from the Purple Forbidden City of Huế, and took him toTân Sở in the mountains as the figurehead of a revolutionary movement against the French. To take away the legitimacy of Hàm Nghi, generalde Courcy and résidentde Champeaux ofFrance asked theempress dowager Nghi Thiên to enthrone Hàm Nghi's elder half brother prince Nguyễn Phúc Ưng Kỷ. On 19 September 1885 with the backing of the governor of Annam, Prince Nguyễn Phúc Ưng Kỷ was crowned as the ninth emperor of Đại Nam with theera name ofĐồng Khánh.
Đồng Khánh was pro-French, which was noted in the diary ofTrần Trọng Kim:
"Emperor Đồng Khánh had a gentle personality, loved to wear luxurious jewelry and adopted French culture[,] therefore [the] French colonial government gave favor to him. After the dethroned emperor Hàm Nghi fled to Quảng Bình, Đồng Khánh accepted the French request of travelling to Quảng Bình to persuade Hàm Nghi and his loyal subjects [to] surrender but [was] unsuccessful. After that, Hàm Nghi was betrayed by his loyal subjectTrương Quang Ngọc [vi][;] then he was captured by [the] French and exiled [to] Algérie."
On 28 January 1889, Đồng Khánh died aged 24 after reigning for three years. He was granted the posthumous name Hoằng Liệt Thông Thiết Mẫn HuệThuần Hoàng Đế (弘烈聰哲敏惠純皇帝), with the temple name Cảnh Tông (景宗).
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In 1916, his son the EmperorKhải Định granted him the name Phối Thiên Minh Vận Hiếu Đức Nhân Vũ Vĩ Công Hoằng Liệt Thông Thiết Mẫn HuệThuần Hoàng Đế (配天明運孝德仁武偉功弘烈聰哲敏惠純皇帝). He was buried in Tư Lăng mausoleum (思陵), which is located at Dương Xuân Thượng village, Hương Thuỷ commune, Thừa Thiên Province.
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| Preceded by | Emperor of Vietnam 1885–1889 | Succeeded by |
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