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Somdet Phra Chaoyuhua Boromakot or Somdet Phra Boromaracha Dhiraj III was the king of Ayutthaya
Ayutthaya kingdom

The kingdom of Ayutthaya was a Thai people kingdom that existed from 1351 to 1767. Ayutthaya was friendly towards foreign traders, including the Han Chinese, Vietnamese , Indo-Aryans, Japanese people and Persians, and later the Portuguese people, Spanish people, Dutch and French people, permitting them to set up villages outside the city wa...
 from 1732 to 1758. His reign was the last blooming period of Ayutthaya as the kingdom would fall nine years after his death.

Prince Porn was the son of Phra Chao Suea. His elder brother, Prince Petch, succeeded the throne as Tai Sa in 1708. Porn was then appointed as the Front Palace
Front Palace

Krom Phrarajawang Baworn Sathan Mongkol or the Front Palace was a royal title granted by the Siamese monarchy until the nineteenth century....
. Upon the death of Tai Sa, however, Tai Sa decided to give his throne to his son, Prince Abhay, instead of his brother.






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Somdet Phra Chaoyuhua Boromakot or Somdet Phra Boromaracha Dhiraj III was the king of Ayutthaya
Ayutthaya kingdom

The kingdom of Ayutthaya was a Thai people kingdom that existed from 1351 to 1767. Ayutthaya was friendly towards foreign traders, including the Han Chinese, Vietnamese , Indo-Aryans, Japanese people and Persians, and later the Portuguese people, Spanish people, Dutch and French people, permitting them to set up villages outside the city wa...
 from 1732 to 1758. His reign was the last blooming period of Ayutthaya as the kingdom would fall nine years after his death.

Prince Porn was the son of Phra Chao Suea. His elder brother, Prince Petch, succeeded the throne as Tai Sa in 1708. Porn was then appointed as the Front Palace
Front Palace

Krom Phrarajawang Baworn Sathan Mongkol or the Front Palace was a royal title granted by the Siamese monarchy until the nineteenth century....
. Upon the death of Tai Sa, however, Tai Sa decided to give his throne to his son, Prince Abhay, instead of his brother. In 1732, Tai Sa died and the civil war commenced. Porn led his armies against his newphews, Prince Abhay and Prince Poramet. The civil war was bloodshed and torn Ayutthaya apart. With the victory ensured, Porn executed his newphews and took the throne as King Boromakot.

Because the Samuha Kalahom had lent the support to Prince Abhay, Boromakot removed the power of Samuha Kalahom by depriving its authorities over southern Siam and transfered the power to Krom Tha instead. The Samuha Kalahom remained as a mere military figurehead.

In spite of the bloodshed that preceded his reign, Boromakot was known for his reconstruction of Buddhist temples and the peace and prosperity Ayutthaya finally enjoyed again. In 1753, Boromakot sent two Siamese monks to rehabitilate Theravada Buddhism in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is an island country in South Asia, located about off the southern coast of India....
.

In 1741, Boromakot made his son Dharmmadhibet the Front Palace. Dharmmadhibet proved to be an able prince and was a poet. However, Dharmmadhibet had an affair with one of Boromakot's concubines - a crime of great severity. The lovers got caught in 1746 and both them were executed.

Boromakot then appointed his third son, Duea (later became Uthumporn
Uthumporn

Somdet Phrachao Uthumporn Maha Pornpinit was the penultimate king of Ayutthaya in 1758 for about two months. Facing various throne claimants, Uthumporn finally abdicated and became a monk....
), as the Front Palace. Boromakot skipped his second son, Ekatat, because he thought that Ekatat didn't suitable to be a king. Ekatat always claiming his rights to the throne then and the struggles of princes for the throne would contribute to the fall of Ayutthaya in 1767.