Mac Dang Dung
| Mạc Đăng Dung | |||||||||||||
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| Emperor of Vietnam | |||||||||||||
| Reign | 15 June 1527-1529 | ||||||||||||
| Successor | Mạc Thái Tông | ||||||||||||
| Born | 1483 | ||||||||||||
| Died | 22 August 1541 | ||||||||||||
| Spouse | Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Toàn | ||||||||||||
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| House | Mạc Dynasty | ||||||||||||
| Father | Mạc Hịch | ||||||||||||
| Mother | Đặng Thị Hiếu | ||||||||||||
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| Mạc Đăng Dung (莫登庸) | |
| Posthumous name | |
| Nhân Minh Cao Hoàng Đế (仁明高皇帝) | |
| Temple name | |
| Thái Tổ (太祖) |
Mạc Đăng Dung (chữ Hán; ; 1483?–1541), posthumous name Mạc Thái Tổ (), was an emperor of Vietnam and the founder of the Mạc Dynasty. Previously a captain of the imperial guard (Praetorian Prefect equivalent) of one of the Lê Dynasty emperors, he gradually rose to a position of great power. Mạc eventually deposed the last Lê monarch and became a monarch himself.
The Ming's ethnic Vietnamese collaborators included Mac Thuy, whose grandfather was Mạc Đĩnh Chi, who was a direct ancestor of Mạc Đăng Dung.
He was born Mạc Đăng Dung (莫登庸) on 23 November 1483 (Quý Mão in the sexagenary cycle) at the village of Cổ Trai, Nghi Dương district (modern Kiến Thụy, part of Haiphong city) as a fisherman's son.
Mạc Đăng Dung got his start as a bodyguard to the cruel and depraved monarch of Vietnam, Lê Uy Mục. Mạc Đăng Dung was famous for his strength and cunning. (For more information see the article on the Lê Dynasty). Note that while some sources claim Mạc Đăng Dung was a Confucian scholar (government administrator) this seems to be the result of confusion with another notable Vietnamese scholar whose family name was also Mac. Mạc Đăng Dung was a military man who rose through the ranks.
Despite several assassinations (both Lê Uy Mục and his successor Lê Tương Dực were assassinated) Mạc Đăng Dung continued to gain power and rank in the military. With the enthronment of the young emperor Lê Chiêu Tông in 1516, a power struggle in the court ensued. On the one side was Mạc Đăng Dung and his supporters (Mac was now the top general of the armies of Vietnam). On the other side were two noble families of Vietnam, the Trịnh and the Nguyễn, led by Nguyễn Hoàng Du and Trịnh Duy Dai and Trịnh Duy Sản.
Around 1520, the power struggle broke into civil war. The young emperor fled south to Thanh Hóa Province along with the Trịnh and the Nguyễn families. Mạc Đăng Dung soon proclaimed that the king's younger brother, Prince Xuan, was now the true monarch of Vietnam and had him installed under the name Lê Cung Hoàng. Meanwhile, armies fought along the border of Thanh Hóa Province.
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