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The Dutch East India Company closed its base in Ayutthaya in [[1663]].
The Dutch East India Company closed its base in Ayutthaya in [[1663]].
King [[Narai]], who ruled in the latter half of the 17th century, was perhaps among the most active of Southeast Asian rulers in engaging with the West. In [[1673]], he received formal diplomatic communications from both Louis XIV of France, and Pope Clement IX, and reciprocated them.
A small number of Siamese ships - officially under the name of either the king or one of the royal princes - traveled to [[Nagasaki]] over the course of the 17th-18th centuries. Despite maritime restrictions against trade with most outside powers, Nagasaki accepted these Siamese ships under the category of "Dutch ships," given their Western-style construction.
==Kings of Ayutthaya==
==Kings of Ayutthaya==