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She was the daughter of Emperor Trần Nhân Tông and the younger sister of Emperor Trần Anh Tông. She was born in 1289 but her year of death is unclear.
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In 1306 Trần Anh Tông married off princess Huyền Trân to the Champa King Jaya Sinhavarman III (Vietnamese: Chế Mân, 制旻) and as Queen Paramecvariin of Champa, in return for the two provinces of Chau O and Chau Ly (or Chau Ri) (today these provinces are Quảng Bình Province, Quảng Trị Province and Thừa Thiên–Huế Province). There are few details in the historical record about princess Huyền Trân"s life. In 1301, the Emperor"s father, Trần Nhân Tông, visited the Champa kingdom and was given a lavish royal welcome by King Jaya Sinhavarman III. The visit lasted nine months.
Jaya Sinhavarman III thereafter sent many envoys to Đại Việt to urge the Trần King to carry out the marriage plan as Trần Nhân Tông had promised but the Emperor refused.
Among the Emperor"s men, only General Van Tuc Dao Thai and Minister Trần Khắc Chung supported the marriage. Princess Huyền Trân went to Champa but a year later, in May 1307, Jaya Sinhavarman III died and the crown prince sent an ambassador to Đại Việt to offer white elephants as gifts and announced the death of his king.
According to Cham tradition, all of the royal wives would be cremated with the dead king. King Trần Anh Tông ordered a general named Trần Khắc Chung to go to Champa to officially attend the funeral but the real mission was for Trần Khắc Chung to rescue Huyền Trân and take her back to Đại Việt by boat.
The trip back took a year.
Legends had it that Trần Khắc Chung fell in love with Princess Huyền Trân and the two disappeared from sight together but there is no historical proof to back up this story. The sacrifice of princess Huyền Trân (well known in Vietnamese literature and history as "Huyền Trân Công Chúa") has become an attractive topic for poems and arts and music in Vietnamese chữ Nôm. Her marriage is also proverbial.
Play Huyên Trân công chúa (Princess Huyền Trân) by Đoàn Thanh Ái
Poems: Princess Huyền Trân by Hoàng Cao Khải, and Farewell to Huyền Trân by Đào Tiến Luyện
Music: Epic of the Mandarin Road,
Farewell to Huyền Trân by Đào Tiến Luyện, set to music by Phạm Duy,
Princess Huyền Trân by musician Nguyễn Hiên,
Missing by musician Châu Kentucky,
Love story of Huyền Trân by Nam Lộc,
Hard life in Chiêm Thành (folklore song).
Most cities in Vietnam have named major streets after her.
