Nguyen Phuc Tru

Nguyễn Phúc Tru, or Nguyễn Phúc Chú, (1696–1738; r. 1725–1738) was one of the Nguyễn lords who ruled over southern Vietnam in the 16th–18th centuries. Also known as Ninh Vuong, he expanded his family's territory by seizing the Cambodian provinces of Vinh-long and My-tho in 1731.