Princess Lê Thị Ngọc Hân (1770–1799) was a Vietnamese

princess Princess is a regal rank and the feminine equivalent of prince (from Latin '' princeps'', meaning principal citizen). Most often, the term has been used for the consort of a prince, or for the daughter of a king or prince. Princess as a subs ...

of the Later Lê dynasty and Empress Consort of emperor

Quang Trung Emperor Quang Trung ( vi-hantu, 光中, 1753 – 16 September 1792) or Nguyễn Huệ ( vi-hantu, 阮惠), also known as Nguyễn Quang Bình ( vi-hantu, 阮光平), was the second emperor of the Tây Sơn dynasty, reigning from 1788 until 17 ...

of the

Tây Sơn dynasty The Tây Sơn dynasty (, vi, Nhà Tây Sơn (Chữ Nôm: 茹西山); vi, Tây Sơn triều ( Hán tự: 西山朝) was a ruling dynasty of Vietnam, founded in the wake of a rebellion against both the Nguyễn lords and the Trịnh lords befo ...

Biography

Lê Thị Ngọc Hân was the twenty-first and youngest daughter of emperor Lê Hiển Tông who arranged her marriage at the age of sixteen to

Nguyễn Huệ Emperor Quang Trung ( vi-hantu, 光中, 1753 – 16 September 1792) or Nguyễn Huệ ( vi-hantu, 阮惠), also known as Nguyễn Quang Bình ( vi-hantu, 阮光平), was the second emperor of the Tây Sơn dynasty, reigning from 1788 until 17 ...

, who later reigned as Emperor

, for whom she left two admirable poems in chữ Nôm, moving laments for her husband.Thomas Hodgkin Vietnam: the revolutionary path 1981 – Page 87 "gave him his sixteen-year-old daughter, Le Thi Ngoc Han, as a wife. A well-educated girl, she died in 1799 at the age of twenty-nine, leaving two children and two admirable poems in nom, moving laments for her husband ..." She herself was memorialized in a lament by Phan Huy Ích.

References

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