Mạc Phúc Nguyên (chữ Hán: 莫福源, ? – December 1561), also known as Mạc Tuyên Tông (莫宣宗), was an emperor of Vietnam's
Mạc dynasty
The Mạc dynasty (; Hán-Nôm: 茹 莫/ 朝 莫) (1527–1677), officially Đại Việt (Chữ Hán: 大越), was a Vietnamese dynasty which ruled over a unified Vietnam between 1527 and 1540, and northern Vietnam from 1540 until 1593. The M ...
who reigned from 1546 to 1561.
Biography
In July 1557, Mạc Phúc Nguyên ordered his general Mạc Kính Điển to attack rebels in
Thanh Hóa Province, but the attack failed and following a rearguard attack on Sơn Tây, Tuyên Quang, Hưng Hoá, Kinh Băc, and Hải Dương provinces Mạc Phúc Nguyên had to fall back to his capital at
Đông Đô. He died of
smallpox
Smallpox was an infectious disease caused by Variola virus (often called Smallpox virus), which belongs to the genus '' Orthopoxvirus''. The last naturally occurring case was diagnosed in October 1977, and the World Health Organization (W ...
four years later.
He was preceded by
Mạc Hiến Tông and succeeded by
Mạc Mậu Hợp
Mạc Mậu Hợp (莫茂洽, 1560–1593) was the fifth and effectively last reigning emperor of the Mạc dynasty from 1562 to 1593.
Biography
Mạc Mậu Hợp was born in 1560 at Đông Đô. He became the emperor in 1562.
In 1592, the Sout ...
.
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Sources
Bibliography
* ''Đại Việt Thông Sử'',
Lê Quý Đôn (1759)
1561 deaths
Mạc dynasty emperors
Year of birth unknown
Vietnamese monarchs
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