Nguyễn Kim , born in 1468 and died in 1545, Vietnamese prince of the family of the Nguyễn.
Biography
Kim is born in 1468 in a family from well-read men and senior officials with the service as of the posterior ones. He is the oldest son of the duke Nguyên Van Luu, Mandarin at the court. Kim seems a particularly intelligent child very early. The king Chieu Tong (1516-1524) grants to him the title of marquis (Year Thanh Hau) and names it general in charge of the administration of the province of Thanh Ba (today province of Thanh Hoa).The historical work of Kim begins with the inversion from the the by the Mac when in 1527 the king Chieu Tong is assassinated by Mac Dang Dung, one from its generals. Faithful to demolished, Nguyễn Kim flees with the Laos from where it organizes resistance to Mac in order to “restore It”. The first years of resistance are particularly difficult for Kim and her some partisans. Isolated geographically, isolated politically, Kim and his seem them to settle in their misfortune and condemned to disappear in the lapse of memory. But, making its weakness a force, Kim transforms her exodus into period of reinforcement.
During six years, obstinately, almost only, it aguerri its troops and recruits new partisans. So on the military level, the things advance badly for the partisans as of, Kim gains in 1533 an important political advantage. It makes establish Trang Tong emperor by the faithful ones as of. The crowning of Trang Tong galvanizes the opposition to Mac and under the authority of Kim, the king manages to gather under name, not still an army, but a more important troop. 1533 mark the beginning of the offensive. Kim and they his leave Laos to settle in the province of Thanh Ba. The work of restoration is of quite long breath.
It is in 1543, sixteen years after the departure, that Trang Tong launches the movement of restoration. It calls Kim with the head of the army. Sign confidence that it carries to him, Trang Tong grants the direction of the operations to him on ground and sea. Very quickly, Kim gains many military successes. Its troops advance towards North, obliging Mac to fold up itself to remain on the defensive. In spite of these successes, It are still not restored in their right. Campaigns in knacks, Kim continues harassing against Mac. On its victory, it envisages in 1545 the attack of Dong Do XXX. Rewarded for her fidelity by the honors and the victories, Kim does not achieve the goal of her life. A flood prevented its troops from taking again the capital, and it was poisoned by a partisan of Mac. He dies the twentieth day of the fifth month of the year of the Snake (1545) leaving unfinished the work of his life at the time when the restoration as of was within reach. Loved chief of its soldiers, listened subject of his king, Nguyễn Kim receives the posthumous title of Duc and the name of Hieu Lord.
The tradition tells that at the time of its burial, on the mountain Thien Toa, district of Tong Its, an appalling storm dispersed the procession and put an end to the ceremony. When the sun reappeared, all traces of the funeral had disappeared, and the tomb was filled by the roots of a tree pushed as by magic. Today one does not know exactly where its tomb is.
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