Nguyễn Phúc Chu

{{Unclear citation style|date=March 2024}}{{Short description|Vietnamese lord (1675–1725)}}

{{Infobox royalty

|name = Nguyễn Phúc Chu
阮福淍

|title =Nguyễn lords
Lord of Cochinchina

|image =

|father =Nguyễn Phúc Thái

|mother =Tống Thị Lĩnh

|spouse =Tống Thị Được
Nguyễn Thị Lan
Trần Thị Nghi
Lê Thị Tuyên
Tống Thị Lượng

|issue = Nguyễn Phúc Trú

|birth_date = June 11, 1675

|birth_place = Cochinchina

|death_date = {{death date and age|1725|6|2|1675|6|11}}

|death_place = Cochinchina

|place of burial=

|regnal name = Chúa Minh ({{linktext|主|明}} "Lord Minh")

|full name =Nguyễn Phúc Chu ({{linktext|阮|福|淍}})

|succession =Nguyễn Lords

|reign =1691–1725

|predecessor =Nguyễn Phúc Thái

|successor =Nguyễn Phúc Trú

|house =Nguyễn Phúc

|era dates =

|temple name =Hiển Tông ({{linktext|顯|宗}})

|posthumous name=Anh Mô Hùng Lược thánh Văn Tuyên Đạt Khoan Từ Nhân Thứ Hiếu Minh Hoàng Đế
英謨雄略聖文宣達寬慈仁恕孝明皇帝

|religion = Buddhism

}}

Nguyễn Phúc Chu ({{lang-vi-hantu|{{linktext|阮|福|淍}}}}, 1675 – 1 June 1725) was one of the Nguyễn lords who ruled southern Vietnam (Đàng Trong) from 1691 to 1725.Anh Thư Hà, Hồng Đức Trần A Brief Chronology of Vietnam's History 2000 Page 163 "Nguyễn Phúc Tăn was previously wrongly referred to as Nguyễn Phúc Trãn6. Lord Nguyễn Phúc Chu (Quốc Chúa) (1691-1725) Nguyễn Phúc Chu was born in 1675. He was the eldest son of Nguyễn Phúc Thái."

During his time in power, he had to deal with a Champa rebellion and the first major war against the Cambodians. Nguyễn Phúc Chu was the eldest son of Nguyễn Phúc Trăn. He gained the throne on his father's early death, at just 15 years old. He took for himself the title Tong Quan-Cong (Duke of Tong). {{Citation needed|date=January 2012}}

Early in his reign the Champa ruler of Panduranga (in present-day Phan Rang, Ninh Thuận), Po Sot, began a rebellion against the Nguyễn. The revolt was at first unsuccessful and after the Nguyễn army put down the revolt there was an outbreak of plague in Panduranga. Three years later, a Cham aristocrat, Oknha Dat, obtained the help of General A Ban (a somewhat mysterious figure). {{Clarify|date=January 2012}}

Together they defeated a Nguyễn military force in 1695. The new Cham king, Po Saktiray Da Patih (younger brother of Po Sot), made a treaty with Nguyễn Phúc Chu. The result was the Cham rulers in Panduranga were recognised as Trấn Vương (local lords) for the next 135 years, though they had no authority over Vietnamese living in the area. In 1714, Nguyễn Phúc Chu sent an army into Cambodia to support Keo Fa who claimed the throne against Prea Srey Thomea (see also the article on the Post-Angkor Period). The army of Siam also got involved in the war, the Siamese sided with the Prea Srey Thomea against the Vietnamese (this was during the time of the Ayutthaya Kings of Siam). The Vietnamese won several battles against the Siamese (including the battle of Banteay Meas) but shifting fortunes led to the war ending with negotiations rather than military defeat on either side. {{Citation needed|date=January 2012}}