{{Infobox royalty , name=Ý Tĩnh Khang hoàng hậu
懿靜康皇后 , title=Empress Dowager Ý Tĩnh , image= , birth_date=1736 , birth_place= Minh Linh village, Hương Trà, Thừa Thiên , death_date={{Death date, 1811, 10, 30 , death_place= Phú Xuân, Việt Nam , father=Nguyễn Phúc Trung , mother=Lady Phùng , spouse=

Nguyễn Phúc Luân Nguyễn Phúc Luân or Nguyễn Phúc Côn (wikt:阮, 阮wikt:福, 福wikt:㫻, 㫻, 24 October 1733– 30 January 1765) was a son of Nguyễn Lords, lord Nguyễn Phúc Khoát and father of Nguyễn Phúc Ánh (future emperor Gia Long of Viet ...

, issue= Emperor Gia Long)
Nguyễn Phúc Đồng, Prince of Đông Hải
Nguyễn Phúc Điển, Prince of Thông Hóa
Nguyễn Phúc Ngọc Tú , place of burial= Thụy Thánh lăng
Hương Trà, Thừa Thiên Huế , full name= Nguyễn Thị Hoàn (阮氏環) , succession=Empress Dowager of the

Nguyễn dynasty The Nguyễn dynasty (chữ Nôm: 茹阮, vi, Nhà Nguyễn; chữ Hán: 阮朝, vi, Nguyễn triều) was the last Vietnamese dynasty, which ruled the unified Vietnamese state largely independently from 1802 to 1883. During its existence, ...

, reign=1802–1811 , reign-type = Tenure , predecessor=None , successor= Empress Dowager Nhân Tuyên , succession1= Empress consort of

, reign1= ''Empress title granted posthumously'' , reign-type1 = Tenure , predecessor1=None , successor1= Empress Thừa Thiên , house= Nguyễn (by marriage) , posthumous name= Short: Ý Tính Khang Hoàng Hậu 懿靜康皇后
Full: Ý Tĩnh Huệ Cung An Trinh Từ Hiến Hiếu Khang hoàng hậu
懿靜惠恭安貞慈獻孝康皇后 Empress Dowager Ý Tĩnh, born Lady Nguyễn Thị Hoàn (1736 – 1811), was the first Empress Dowager of the

of Vietnam. She was the mother of Emperor Gia Long, the first monarch of the Nguyễn dynasty.

Life

She was a daughter of Duke Nguyễn Phúc Trung of Minh Linh Nguyễn clan and Lady Phùng of An Du Phùng Clan, Thừa Thiên district. She married

and gave birth to three sons and one daughter. After Lord Nguyễn Phúc Khoát died, the royal official Trương Phúc Loan changed his last will to put the young prince Nguyễn Phúc Thuần to the throne, and sent

, who was the real successor stated in the will, to prison.

died in 1765 at the age of 33. After Nguyễn Phúc Thuần lost the throne in the Tây Sơn rebellion, Lady Nguyễn Thị Hoàn's life became relatively uneasy. She escaped to the very far south of Vietnam and spent most of her time in Phú Quốc and

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. In 1778,

Gia Long Gia Long ( (''North''), ('' South''); 8 February 1762 – 3 February 1820), born Nguyễn Phúc Ánh (阮福暎) or Nguyễn Ánh, was the founding emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty, the last dynasty of Vietnam. His dynasty would rule the unif ...

defeated Tây Sơn and unified Vietnam. Lady Nguyễn Thị Hoàn was invited to go back to

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. In 1801, she went back to the royal capital and remained there until her death in 1811. In 1807, she was elevated to Empress Dowager. In 1812 she was elevated to the title as Hiếu Khang Empress Dowager (Ý Tĩnh Huệ Cung An Trinh Từ Hiến Hiếu Khang hoàng hậu, 懿靜惠恭安貞慈獻孝康皇后). Her tomb is Thuy Thanh tomb (Thụy Thánh lăng - 瑞聖陵) at Hương Trà district.

Family

* Father: Duke Nguyễn Phúc Trung of Minh Linh Nguyễn clan * Mother: Lady Phùng of An Du Phùng Clan * Issues: #

Nguyễn Phúc Đồng Nguyễn () is the most common Vietnamese surname. Outside of Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics as Nguyen. Nguyên (元）is a different word and surname. By some estimates 39 percent of Vietnamese people bear this s ...

, prince of Dong Hai #

Nguyễn Phúc Ngọc Tú Nguyễn () is the most common Vietnamese surname. Outside of Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics as Nguyen. Nguyên (元）is a different word and surname. By some estimates 39 percent of Vietnamese people bear this s ...

# Nguyễn Phúc Ánh #

Nguyễn Phúc Điển Nguyễn () is the most common Vietnamese surname. Outside of Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics as Nguyen. Nguyên (元）is a different word and surname. By some estimates 39 percent of Vietnamese people bear this s ...

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