father predecessor successor succession house mother birth_place death_date monarch|name title death_place religion birth_date issue image article_title reign
ang duong norodom sisowath monivong king of cambodia house of sisowath neang pou battambang , cambodia 9 august 1927 sisowath i king of cambodia phnom penh , cambodia buddhism 7 september 1840 26 sons and daughters prince sisawat.jpg border sisowath of cambodia
 27 april 1904 -- 9 august 1927
sisowath of cambodia

sisowath i -lrb- ; 7 september 1840 -- 9 august 1927 -rrb- was king of cambodia from 1904 to his death in 1927 .
he was the son of king ang duong and half brother of prince si votha and king norodom .
when he was born , cambodia was under joint siamese and vietnamese rule .
the royal family lived in the siamese zone rather than live under vietnam .
like his brother king norodom , sisowath was educated in the siamese capital of bangkok .
he did not return to his native cambodia until 1860 , when his father and the ruling monarch , ang duong , died .
he hastily returned to oudong , the royal capital of cambodia , to prevent his half-brother , prince si votha from seizing the throne .
he succeeded , and his other half-brother , norodom , became king .
although norodom was more compliant , rebellion broke out in cambodia , and soon the french , seeking control of southeast asia , forced norodom to comply with a french protectorate over cambodia .
the french thus drove out the thai and the vietnamese , and cambodia became a french protectorate , though it was quite autonomous .
sisowath was enraged - and he exiled himself to saigon in vietnam in 1864 , the other former overlord of cambodia , in a show of defiance .
the french , who also had control of saigon , persuaded sisowath to remain there under french `` protection '' , as his life was in danger by the `` rebels in cambodia '' .
in reality , the french used sisowath as a tool to threaten norodom .
if norodom was not following france 's policies of reform , they could threaten norodom with sisowath and say that they would depose norodom and replace him with sisowath if he did not comply .
in 1867 , when cambodia was in open rebellion against french rule , king norodom pleaded sisowath to return to cambodia to quell the rising .
sisowath returned from vietnam to oudong and helped quell the uprising .
in 1884 , when the french took full control over vietnam , laos , and cambodia , and also defeated siam in a war in 1893 , cambodia became an open french colony , and the capital was moved from oudong to phnom penh .
moving with the royal court to phnom penh , sisowath gave his full support to the french colonial regime .
norodom thus was compelled to name sisowath his future successor .
in 1904 , when norodom died , sisowath was crowned as king of cambodia , a crown that would have gone to one of norodom 's son , prince yukanthor , if the latter did n't have a fall-out with the french .
during his reign , sisowath continued norodom 's role in government , where he was well rewarded by the french for his cooperation : they built him a new palace , gave him a steam-powered yacht , and supplied him with a complementary ration of 250 lbs of high-grade opium per year .
in 1927 , he died in phnom penh and took the posthumous name of `` preah karuna preah sisowath preah reacheanukot '' .
he was succeeded by his son and crown prince , prince sisowath monivong .
