Tạ Văn Phụng

Tạ Văn Phụng (chữ Hán: 謝文奉; ? - 1865), also Bảo Phụng, Lê Duy Phụng (黎維奉), and Lê Duy Minh (黎維明) was a Vietnamese noble, a convert to Catholicism and pretender to the Vietnamese throne.^[1] He was engaged by the French on the recommendation of the priest Théophile Le Grand de la Liraye (1819-1873), but his pretensions to the throne were disliked by Charles Rigault de Genouilly who led the French invasion of Vietnam in 1858.^[2]^[3]

The Christian-inspired Bắc Bộ rebellion or Tonkin revolt of the pretender Pierre Le Duy Phung against Tự Đức broke out in 1861, the Vietnamese court was parleying with admiral Louis Adolphe Bonard in the south. Only after Bonard rejected alliance with the pretender and made a temporary peace with the Nguyen court at Hue, could Nguyen forces head north to protect Hanoi - after which the revolt was put down in 1865.^[4]

References

^ Jacob Ramsay Mandarins and Martyrs: The Church and the Nguyen Dynasty in Early ... 2008
^ Mark W. McLeod The Vietnamese Response to French Intervention, 1862-1874 1991 Page 50 "Thanks to the intercession of Father Legrand de la Lyraye, Pierre Le Duy Phung was engaged (under the name of Ta Van Phung) ... Pierre Le Duy Phung's dynastic preoccupations were not appreciated by the French commander, Rigault de ..."
^ Oscar Chapuis The Last Emperors of Vietnam: From Tu Duc to Bao Dai - Page 49 2000 "A Catholic convert, Pedro Le Duy Phung,4 calling himself emperor of Tonkin, was claiming the Le succession. He began to rally support from both missionaries and Le partisans. Obviously, it was more than Tu Duc could handle at one time."
^ Mark W. McLeod The Vietnamese Response to French Intervention, 1862-1874 1991- Page 50 "But the most murderous and politically significant of all the Le-inspired northern regional rebellions against the Nguyen dynasty's authority was started in Tonkin in 1861 by a Catholic Le pretender named Pierre Le Duy Phung.54 Little is ..."

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[1] Jacob Ramsay Mandarins and Martyrs: The Church and the Nguyen Dynasty in Early ... 2008

[2] Mark W. McLeod The Vietnamese Response to French Intervention, 1862-1874 1991 Page 50 "Thanks to the intercession of Father Legrand de la Lyraye, Pierre Le Duy Phung was engaged (under the name of Ta Van Phung) ... Pierre Le Duy Phung's dynastic preoccupations were not appreciated by the French commander, Rigault de ..."

[3] Oscar Chapuis The Last Emperors of Vietnam: From Tu Duc to Bao Dai - Page 49 2000 "A Catholic convert, Pedro Le Duy Phung,4 calling himself emperor of Tonkin, was claiming the Le succession. He began to rally support from both missionaries and Le partisans. Obviously, it was more than Tu Duc could handle at one time."

[4] Mark W. McLeod The Vietnamese Response to French Intervention, 1862-1874 1991- Page 50 "But the most murderous and politically significant of all the Le-inspired northern regional rebellions against the Nguyen dynasty's authority was started in Tonkin in 1861 by a Catholic Le pretender named Pierre Le Duy Phung.54 Little is ..."

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