Jaya Ananda or Chế A Nan was made the king of
Champa
Champa (Cham language, Cham: ꨌꩌꨛꨩ, چمڤا; ; 占城 or 占婆) was a collection of independent Chams, Cham Polity, polities that extended across the coast of what is present-day Central Vietnam, central and southern Vietnam from ...
after Che Nang fled.
He won Champa's independence against
Tran Minh Tong in 1326.
[Maspero, G., 2002, The Champa Kingdom, Bangkok: White Lotus Co., Ltd., ]
Biography
He was originally from
Trần dynasty
The Trần dynasty (Vietnamese language, Vietnamese: Nhà Trần, chữ Nôm: 茹陳; Vietnamese language, Vietnamese: triều Trần, chữ Hán: ikt:朝ikt:陳, 朝wikt:陳, 陳), officially Đại Việt (Chữ Hán: 大越), was a List ...
but had reached high military ranks in Champa, and thus succeeded to the throne. After he died in 1336, his Cham brother-in-law
Tra Hoa Bo De fought the legitimate heir, Che Mo, for the throne for 6 years.
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In 1342, Che Mo fled to the court of Tran Du Tong (where he died soon after a failed expedition to restore him to the Champa throne in 1353), Tra Hoa Bo De became king of Champa in that year.][ ][Tìm Hiểu Cộng Đồng Người Chăm Ở Việt Nam Bài 6: Bùng Lên Trước Khi Tàn Lụi]
, Nguyễn Văn Huy, chamstudies
See also
* Odoric of Pordenone
Odoric of Pordenone (c. 1280–14 January 1331) was a Franciscan friar and missionary explorer from Friuli in northeast Italy. He journeyed through India, Sumatra, Java, and China, where he spent three years in the imperial capital of Khanbaliq ...
References
Kings of Champa
Hindu monarchs
14th-century Vietnamese monarchs
1342 deaths
Vietnamese monarchs
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