Trần Dụ Tông
| Trần Dụ Tông |
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| Emperor of Đại Việt | |||||||||||||||||
| Emperor of Trần Dynasty | |||||||||||||||||
| Reign | 1341–1369 | ||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | Trần Hiến Tông | ||||||||||||||||
| Successor | Hôn Đức Công | ||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1336 Thăng Long, Đại Việt |
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| Died | 1369 Đại Việt |
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| Burial | Phụ Lăng | ||||||||||||||||
| Spouse | Queen Nghi Thánh | ||||||||||||||||
| Issue | no heir | ||||||||||||||||
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| House | Trần Dynasty | ||||||||||||||||
| Father | Trần Minh Tông | ||||||||||||||||
| Mother | Queen Hiến Từ | ||||||||||||||||
| Religion | Buddhism | ||||||||||||||||
| Full name | |
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| Trần Hạo (陳暭) | |
| Era dates | |
| Thiệu Phong (紹豐, 1341–1357) Đại Trị (大治, 1358–1369) |
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| Dụ Tông (裕宗) |
Trần Dụ Tông (1336–1369), given name Trần Hạo (), was the seventh emperor of the Trần Dynasty, and reigned over Đại Việt from 1341 to 1369. Enthroned by Retired Emperor Minh Tông after the death of his elder brother Hiến Tông, Dụ Tông nominally ruled Đại Việt under the regency of the Retired Emperor until the latter's death in 1357 and held the absolute position in the royal court for twelve more years. The reign of Dụ Tông was seen by historical books as the starting point for the third phase of Trần Dynasty when the peaceful and prosperous state of the country began to fade away and the royal family fell into a long period of chaos before ultimately collapsing.
Dụ Tông was born in 1336 as Trần Hạo, the tenth son of the Retired Emperor Minh Tông and Queen Hiến Từ. In 1341, the reigning Emperor Hiến Tông died at the age of only 23 without an heir, so Minh Tông decided to pass the throne to his youngest son, Trần Hạo, who was only five years old at that time, instead of the eldest son Prince Cung Túc Trần Dục. The reason for this particular decision is that Minh Tông thought that Prince Cung Túc was too extravagant to run the country.
From 1341 to his death in 1357, the Retired Emperor Minh Tông acted as a regent for his son Dụ Tông, who thus reigned only in name. According to Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư, the young Emperor Dụ Tông was very intelligent and was completely focused on managing both civil and military matters of Đại Việt. For that reason, Dụ Tông in his first era Thiệu Phong (, 1341–1357) was well respected in the royal court even if it was the Retired Emperor who ruled the country. In 1349 Dụ Tông entitled a daughter of Prince Huệ Túc Trần Đại Niên as his queen, and she became Queen Nghi Thánh. However, historical books recorded that the Emperor was impotent and that he was only cured after many unusual treatments including using medicine made from a killed young boy and incest with Dụ Tông's own sister, princess Thiên Ninh.
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