Hàm Nghi

Emperor Ham Nghi ( Hán tự :咸宜; born August 3, 1871 in Hue, † January 14, 1943 in El Biar, Algeria) was the eighth Emperor of the Vietnamese Nguyễn Dynasty. On 2 August 1884 he was enthroned as Emperor and held this post until effective July 4, 1885 formally but longer, possibly until the enthronement of his successor on September 19, 1885. His real name was Nguyễn Phúc Ung Lich, Nguyễn Phúc also Minh, as Ärabezeichnung he chose Ham Nghi. His Asked by this motto era began on 15 February 1885, ended with 18 September 1885.

Biography

Although born in the " purple forbidden city " Hue, the future emperor grew - a younger brother of his predecessor in this office, Emperor Kien Phúc, - in humble circumstances. After the murder of his imperial brother on August 1, 1884, the French chose the little thirteen- year-olds from a supposedly docile successor. He was enthroned on August 2, 1884.

On July 4, 1885, the revolt of the mandarin broke out, led by Nguyễn Văn Tường and Ton That Thuyet. They stormed the palace and kidnapped Emperor Ham Nghi along with three princesses. They were taken to the hills and jungles of Laos to lead against the French occupying a guerrilla war for which the kidnapped Emperor should be a symbolic figure. To escape the uprising this legitimacy, the French decided to replace him as emperor by his brother Nguyễn Phúc Ung KY, who was enthroned on September 19, 1885, the Dong Khanh Ärabezeichnung chose.

Notwithstanding his abduction Ham Nghi made ​​a habit of the concerns of the insurgents to expel the French colonialists. To a greater extent even than the mandarin, who had triggered the revolt, which focused walked to their personal interests. After the rebels had suffered a series of setbacks and fused together, Ham Nghi, however, was betrayed by his bodyguard in 1888 and delivered to the French colonial regime. Since he was not willing to cooperate with this, he was placed on August 13 in 1888, after Algeria. There he married on November 4, 1904, the French Algerian Marcelle Laloë ( 1884-1974 ). They had three children, Princess Nhu May (1905-1999), Princess Nhu Ly (1908-2005) and Prince Minh Đức ( 1910-1980 ).

The Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 2000, sent an embassy to France to Princess Nhu Ly ( Countess De La Besse ) to ask for permission to transfer the remains of her father in the former imperial city of Hue. Her family, however, denied this.