Ekathotsarot

( * After 1556 in Phitsanulok / Thailand, † 1610 in Ayutthaya Somdet Phrachao Sanphet Thi Sam: - - Sanphet III, สมเด็จ พระเจ้า สรร เพ ช ญ์ ที่ 3 Thai สมเด็จ พระ เอกา ทศ รถ Somdet Phra Ekathotsarot, other name. ) Was Ekathotsarot 1605-1610 King of the Ayutthaya kingdom in what is now Thailand.

Life and work

According to Jeremias Van Vliet, director of the VOC Kontor in Ayutthaya and chronicler, his name Phra Phra Anuchathirat Ramesuan was ( Thai: พระ อนุชา ธิ ราช พระ รา เม ศ วร ). The son of Maha Thammaracha was the 21st king of Ayutthaya, he ascended the throne at the age of 45 years and reigned for six years.

As the successor of King Naresuan the Great, his brother, he inherited an empire that represented the largest expansion ever reached Siam. Had he fought closely at times the reign of Naresuan on its side the decades- long battles against the Burmese and Cambodians, he focused his time on the strengthening of the political organization of Siam and on the external relations.

Ekathotsarot sent the first king of Thailand in 1608 an embassy to Europe to Maurits ( Maurice of Orange ) in the Hague. This was the beginning of a more than 160 -year-long relationship with the Dutch East India Company. Arrived very early so telescopes and binoculars to Siam, a then new invention in Europe.

Successor was his son Ekathotsarot Songtham.