Lê Hiển Tông (黎顯宗 20 May 1717 – 10 August 1786), born Lê Duy Diêu, was the penultimate emperor of

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Lê Dynasty The Lê dynasty, also known as Later Lê dynasty ( vi, Hậu Lê triều, chữ Hán: 後黎朝 or vi, nhà Hậu Lê, link=no, chữ Nôm: 茹後黎), was the longest-ruling Vietnamese dynasty, ruling Đại Việt from 1428 to 1789. The Lê ...

. He reigned from 1740 to 1786 and was succeeded by his grandson Lê Duy Kỳ.Nguyên Thi Minh Hà, Nguyên Thi Thanh Bình – ''Vietnamese feminist poems from antiquity to the present'' 2007 Page 81 "King Lẽ Hiển Tông (life: 1716–86; reign: 1740–86) married off his youngest daughter, Princess Lê Ngọc Hân (1770–1799), to Nguyễn Huệ (life: 1753–1792; reign: 1788–1792), leader of the .." At the time Vietnam was under the power of the

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. During the reigns of Lê Thuần Tông (1732–35) and

Lê Ý Tông Lê Ý Tông (黎懿宗 29 March 1719 – 10 August 1759) was the third-last emperor of the Vietnamese Lê dynasty, reigning only nominally under the power of Trịnh Giang of the Trịnh lords The Trịnh lords ( vi, Chúa Trịnh; Chữ Nôm: ...

(1735–40), Trịnh Giang ruled Vietnam with the title Uy Nam Vương, but he was deposed in 1740 due to poor leadership. From 1740 to 1767, Trịnh Doanh ruled with the title Minh Do Vương in the first part of the reign of Lê Hiển Tông. He was followed by Trịnh Sâm, who ruled from 1767 to 1782 with the title Tinh Do Vương. At this point the Lê dynasty began to regain its power.

Issue

He had twenty-three children, including: * Crown prince Lê Duy Vĩ, executed by the

in 1771 * Lê Duy Cận (died after 1786) * Princess Lê Thị Ngọc Hân * Princess Lê Thị Ngọc Bình

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* * Hien Tong 1717 births 1786 deaths 18th-century Vietnamese monarchs Vietnamese monarchs {{Asia-royal-stub