Lê Dụ Tông (Hán Nôm : 黎裕宗, 1679 – 27 February 1731), born Lê Duy Đường (黎維禟) was an emperor of Vietnam, the 22nd emperor of the Later Lê dynasty.
| Lê Dụ Tông 黎裕宗 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Emperor of Annam | |||||||||||||||||
 Statue of Emperor Lê Dụ Tông in the royal temple. | |||||||||||||||||
| Emperor of the Revival Lê Dynasty | |||||||||||||||||
| Reign | 1705–1729 | ||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | Lê Hy Tông | ||||||||||||||||
| Successor | Lê Duy Phường | ||||||||||||||||
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| Retired Emperor of Revival Lê dynasty | |||||||||||||||||
| Reign | 1729–1731 | ||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1679 Đông Kinh, An Nam | ||||||||||||||||
| Died | 27 February 1731 Đông Kinh, An Nam | ||||||||||||||||
| Burial | Cổ Đô Tomb (古都陵) | ||||||||||||||||
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| Dynasty | House of Lê | ||||||||||||||||
| Father | Lê Hy Tông | ||||||||||||||||
| Mother | Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Đệ | ||||||||||||||||
Biography
editCrown Prince Lê Duy Đường reigned as emperor from 1705 to 1729 (24 years), the first ten years of which his father Lê Hy Tông was alive and elevated in semi-retirement to Retired Emperor (Vietnamese: Thái thượng hoàng). He was succeeded by Lê Duy Phường, also known as the second emperor to carry the title as Hôn Đức Công (means "degraded morality").[note 1][1]
Relatives
edit- Parents
- Father : Emperor Lê Hy Tông (real name Lê Duy Hiệp).
- Mother : Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Đệ (initial title "Cung Nghi Chương empress", then "Ôn Từ imperial dowager-empress").
- Spouses
- Thuần Chính Hòa empress Trịnh Thị Ngọc Trang (正宫皇后 郑氏玉欉), the first of Thì duke Trịnh Nhuận (son of Định Nam prince Trịnh Căn). She gave birth of Lê Phế Đế.
- Trang Từ imperial dowager-empress Trần Thị[note 2], mother of Emperor Lê Thuần Tông.
- Hiến Từ imperial dowager-empress Nguyễn Thị, mother of Emperor Lê Ý Tông.
- Children
He had five sons. They are Lê Duy Phường, Lê Duy Mật, Lê Duy Quý, Lê Thuần Tông and Lê Ý Tông.
Notes and references
editNotes
editReferences
edit- ^ Bruce M. Lockhart, William J. Duiker The A to Z of Vietnam 2010 p437 "Lê Dụ Tông".
Further reading
editBibliography
edit- George Coedes. The Making of South East Asia, 2nd ed. University of California Press, 1983.
- Trần Ngọc Thêm. Cơ sở văn hóa Việt Nam (The Foundation of Vietnamese Culture), 504 pages. Publishing by Nhà xuất bản Đại học Tổng hợp TPHCM. Saigon, Vietnam, 1995.
- Li Tana (2011). Jiaozhi (Giao Chỉ) in the Han period Tongking Gulf. In Cooke, Nola ; Li Tana ; Anderson, James A. (eds.). The Tongking Gulf Through History. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 39–44. ISBN 9780812205022.
- Li Tana, Towards an environmental history of the eastern Red River Delta, Vietnam, c.900–1400, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2014.
- Samuel Baron, Christoforo Borri, Olga Dror, Keith W. Taylor (2018). Views of Seventeenth-Century Vietnam : Christoforo Borri on Cochinchina and Samuel Baron on Tonkin. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-501-72090-1.