Khon Kham was the sixth king of
Lan Xang
Lan Xang () or Lancang was a Lao people, Lao kingdom that held the area of present-day Laos from 1353 to 1707. For three and a half centuries, Lan Xang was one of the largest kingdoms in Southeast Asia. The kingdom is the basis for Laos's nat ...
, and reigned for one year and six months. He was the son of King
Samsenthai and Queen Noi On Sor of the
Kingdom of Lan Na
The Lan Na kingdom or the Kingdom of Lanna (, , "Kingdom of a Million Rice Fields"; , , ), also known as Lannathai, was an Indianized state centered in present-day Northern Thailand from the 13th to the 18th centuries.
The cultural developme ...
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He was appointed as Governor of
Muang Xieng Sa and was granted a ministerial title, when he came of age. He was succeeded by his brother
Kham Tam Sa.
He was killed at Kokrua, on the orders of Nang Keo Phimpha.
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History of Laos
Evidence of modern human presence in the northern and central highlands of Indochina, which constitute the territories of what later is Laos, dates back to the Lower Paleolithic. These earliest human migrants are Australo-Melanesians—associa ...
Kings of Lan Xang
Year of birth unknown
1432 deaths
15th-century Laotian people
15th-century monarchs in Asia
Laotian Theravada Buddhists
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