Thiệu Trị

Thiệu Trị (Hanoi: [tʰiəw˧˨ʔ t͡ɕi˧˨ʔ], Hán tự: 紹治, lit. "inheritance of prosperity"; 6 June 1807 – 4 November 1847), personal name Nguyễn Phúc Miên Tông or Nguyễn Phúc Tuyền, was the third emperor of the Nguyễn Dynasty. He was the eldest son of Emperor Minh Mạng, and reigned from 14 February 1841 until his death on 4 November 1847.[1]

Emperor Thiệu Trị
Emperor of Đại Nam
Imperial edict of emperor Thiệu Trị .
Emperor of Đại Nam
Reign11 February 1841–4 October 1847
PredecessorMinh Mạng
SuccessorTự Đức
Emperor of Nguyễn Dynasty
Reign11 February 1841–4 October 1847
PredecessorMinh Mạng
SuccessorTự Đức
Born(1807-06-16)June 16, 1807
Imperial City, Huế, Việt Nam
DiedOctober 4, 1847(1847-10-04) (aged 40)
Imperial City, Huế, Đại Nam
Burial
Xương Lăng
SpouseEmpress Từ Dụ
more than 200 concubines
Issue64 including 29 princes and 35 princesses, including:
Nguyễn Phúc Hồng Bảo
Nguyễn Phúc Hồng Nhậm
Nguyễn Phúc Hồng Y
Nguyễn Phúc Hồng Cai
Full name
Nguyễn Phúc Miên Tông (阮福綿宗)
Nguyễn Phúc Tuyền (阮福暶)
Era name and dates
Thiệu Trị (紹治): 1841–1847
Posthumous name
Thiệu thiên Long vận Chí thiện Thuần hiếu Khoan minh Duệ đoán Văn trị Vũ công Thánh triết Chương Hoàng đế (紹天隆運至善純孝寬明睿斷文治武功聖哲章皇帝)
Temple name
Hiến Tổ (憲祖)
HouseNguyễn
FatherMinh Mạng
MotherEmpress Tá Thiên
ReligionRuism, Buddhism

Biography

Emperor Thiệu Trị was much like his father, Minh Mạng, and carried on his conservative policies of isolationism and the entrenchment of Confucianism. Highly educated in the Confucian tradition, Thiệu Trị had some curiosity about the West, but like his father was very suspicious of all non-Vietnamese outsiders. At this same time, the French were in a colonial race with Great Britain and were pushing hard for stronger relations with Indochina. This, just as in the reign of Minh Mạng, also brought up Christian missionaries, mostly Spanish and French, who ignored the ban. When Trị began to imprison the missionaries, it prompted an immediate response from France. In 1843, the French government sent a military expedition to Indochina with orders to protect and defend French interests, free the illegal missionaries, if possible without causing an international incident.[2][3]

Gold lạng (Tael) of Thiệu Trị

Trị's determination to eliminate all Roman Catholic missionaries from his country could not be reconciled with a peaceful relationship with France. In 1845, this almost prompted a clash between Vietnam and the American warship USS Constitution which attempted to force Trị to free the missionary Dominique Lefèbvre, who had repeatedly come to Vietnam illegally multiple times. The French task force reached Tourane on 23 March 1847, and demanded that the safety of French nationals be assured and for Thiệu Trị to cease the persecution of missionaries.

The imperial mandarins put off delivering the emperor's reply and fighting broke out. Thiệu Trị had fortified the coast, but the French forces easily defeated the Vietnamese due to the Nguyễn Dynasty's inferior equipment. All of the Vietnamese coastal forts were destroyed and three Nguyễn junks were sunk before the French squadron sailed away. Thiệu Trị called all missionaries enemy spies and demanded that all Christians should be executed on the spot. The mandarins did not put this order into effect and Emperor Thiệu Trị died shortly afterwards; no missionaries were actually ever executed during his reign.[4]

References
  1. Erica J. Peters - Appetites and Aspirations in Vietnam: 2011 -Page 32 "Tự Đức (1847–1883) Minh Mạng's eldest son, Thiệu Trị, ruled from his father's death in 1841 until his own demise in 1847. Thiệu Trị passed over his eldest son to leave the throne to his second son, who ruled from 1847 to 1883"
  2. Jacob Ramsay Mandarins and Martyrs: The Church and the Nguyen Dynasty 2008 "The start of Thiệu Trị's reign saw, for example, an immediate revival of Buddhism at court. A devout Buddhist, Thiệu Trị ordered elaborate mourning rites for his father's funeral."
  3. Nghia M. Vo Saigon: A History -2011 Page 59 "In March 1843, the Heroine arrived in Đà Nẳng harbor, asking for the release of five imprisoned missionaries. King Thiệu Trị complied."
  4. Charles Keith - Catholic Vietnam: A Church from Empire to Nation -2012 Page 46 "The French raids at Đà nẵng in 1847 ended Thiệu Trị's more relaxed policies toward Catholics, and his successor the Tự Đức emperor, who came to power shortly thereafter, issued in the late 1840s and early 1850s a new wave of edicts ..."
Thiệu Trị
Nguyễn Dynasty
 Died: 1847
Preceded by
Minh Mạng		 Emperor of Đại Nam
1841–1847		 Succeeded by
Tự Đức
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