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The king was told that mahouts were unable to tame the elephant, so the king was invited to go tame it himself. On setting out by royal barge along Plamo Canal ( Thai : คลองปลาหมอ ), beside Sabua Canal ( Thai : คลองสระบัว ) (historian Jeremias van Vliet says it was on the side nearer the Palace Gate ...
English: A drawing by Jean-Baptiste Nolin depicts an event that took place on 18 October 1685 CE at the Hall of Sanphet in Ayutthaya (now a province of Thailand).In that event, King Narai of the Ayutthaya Kingdom granted an audience to an extraordinary mission accredited by King Louis XIV of France.
After Lopburi's King Kraisornrat died with no heir apparent, the king of Phraek Siracha (present-day Sankhaburi), who was the grandfather of Ayutthaya's first king, Uthong, took over the throne. After he died in 1319, both Lopburi and the city of Sena Ratchanakhon was considered royal inheritances for his daughter, who later passed it to her ...
Dutch factors (Opperhoofden) were also stationed at Ayutthaya, such as Pieter van den Hoorn (from 1688 to 1691), or Thomas van Son (from 1692 to 1697). [30] Contact between Siam and the West remained sporadic, however, and would not return to the level seen in the reign of King Narai until the reign of King Mongkut in the mid-19th century. [31]
King Sanphet VIII [1] (Thai: สมเด็จพระสรรเพชญ์ที่ ๘) or King Suriyenthrathibodi (Thai: สมเด็จพระเจ้าสุริเยนทราธิบดี) (1661 – 1708) was the King of Ayutthaya from 1703 to 1708 and the second ruler of the Ban Phlu Luang Dynasty.
Athittayawong [1] (Thai: อาทิตยวงศ์, Ādityavaṅśa; born 1618) was the shortest-reigning monarch of Ayutthaya, only for 36 days in 1629 and the last king of the Sukhothai dynasty. [2]: 55 Prince Athitayawong was the son of King Songtham and his principal wife.
Songtham (Thai: ทรงธรรม, pronounced [sōŋ.tʰām]) or Intharacha III was the King of Ayutthaya from 1610/11 to 1628 of the House of Sukhothai.His reign marked the prosperity of the Ayutthaya kingdom after it regained independence from Toungoo Dynasty, and saw the commencement of trade with foreign nations, especially the Dutch and the Japanese.
However, the king himself was known for "cruelty to people and animals alike," with seven of his sons meeting violent deaths. [4]: 67–68 Much of what survives in Ayutthaya today dates back to Borommakot's massive renovations of Ayutthaya temples in the second quarter of the 18th century. [5]