Trần Phế Đế

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Trần Phế Đế
陳廢帝
Emperor of Đại Việt
Emperor of Trần dynasty
Reign15 March 1377 6 December 1388
Predecessor Trần Duệ Tông
Successor Trần Thuận Tông
Born6 March 1361
Thăng Long, Đại Việt
Died6 December 1388 (aged 27)
Thăng Long, Đại Việt
Burial
An Bài Sơn
SpouseQueen Quang Loan
Issue Prince Thuận Đức
Names
Trần Hiện
Era dates
Xương Phù (昌符, 13771388)
Posthumous name
none
House Trần dynasty
Father Trần Duệ Tông
Mother Dowager Empress Gia Từ
ReligionBuddhism

Trần Phế Đế (6 March 1361 6 December 1388), given name Trần Hiện, was the tenth emperor of the Trần dynasty who reigned Đại Việt from 1377 to 1388. After his father's death in Battle of Đồ Bàn in January 1377, Phế Đế was enthroned as Đại Việt Emperor by the Retired Emperor Trần Nghệ Tông who acted as Phế Đế's regent during his reign. Fearing the rise of Hồ Quý Ly in royal court, Phế Đế tried to reduce his 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 Phế Đế in December 1388. Phế Đế was downgraded to Prince Linh Đức and forced to commit suicide and his supporters in royal court were purged by Hồ Quý Ly faction. The death of Phế Đế marked the last step of Hồ Quý Ly's power seizing from Trần clan.

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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 Battle of Đồ Bàn in which Duệ Tông and seventy percent of his troops were killed by Champa's army, the Retired Emperor Nghệ Tông decided to cede the vacant throne to Prince Kiến Đức. After the coronation, Phế Đế changed the era name to Xương Phù (昌符, 13771388).

As emperor

  1. 1 2 3 Ngô Sĩ Liên 1993 , p. 272
  2. Ngô Sĩ Liên 1993 , p. 267
  3. 1 2 3 Chapuis 1995 , p. 91
  4. Ngô Sĩ Liên 1993 , p. 270
  5. Maspero, G., 2002, The Champa Kingdom, Bangkok: White Lotus Co., Ltd., ISBN   9747534991
  6. Ngô Sĩ Liên 1993 , p. 273
  7. 1 2 Ngô Sĩ Liên 1993 , p. 274
  8. Ngô Sĩ Liên 1993 , pp. 273–274
  9. Ngô Sĩ Liên 1993 , p. 275
  10. Ngô Sĩ Liên 1993 , pp. 276–278
  11. Ngô Sĩ Liên 1993 , pp. 278–279
  12. Chapuis 1995 , p. 94
  13. Ngô Sĩ Liên 1993 , pp. 279–280
  14. Ngô Sĩ Liên 1993 , p. 280
  15. Ngô Sĩ Liên 1993 , p. 279

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Trần Phế Đế
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese Trần Phế Đế
Hán-Nôm
Trần Phế Đế
Born: 1361 Died: 1388
Regnal titles
Preceded by Emperor of Trần dynasty
13771378
Succeeded by