Lê Hiến Tông ( chữ Hán: 黎憲宗, 10 August 1461 – 24 May 1504) was the 6th emperor of Vietnam's Lê dynasty reigning over

Đại Việt Đại Việt (, ; literally Great Việt), often known as Annam ( vi, An Nam, Chữ Hán: 安南), was a monarchy in eastern Mainland Southeast Asia from the 10th century AD to the early 19th century, centered around the region of present-day H ...

from 1497 to 1504. 《欽定越史通鑑綱目》卷首

He promulgated the legal code of his father Lê Thánh Tông (1442–1497) in the '' Khâm định Việt sử Thông giám cương mục''. His death in 1504 marked the beginning of the crisis in sixteenth-century Đại Việt which continued eighty-eight years until the

Trịnh Lords The Trịnh lords ( vi, Chúa Trịnh; Chữ Nôm: 主鄭; 1545–1787), formal title Trịnh Viceroy (; ), also known as Trịnh clan (鄭氏, ''Trịnh thị'') or the House of Trịnh, were a noble feudal clan who de facto ruled Northern Viet ...

drove the

Mạc dynasty The Mạc dynasty ( vi, Nhà Mạc / ''Mạc triều''; Hán Nôm: 茹莫 / 莫朝) (1527-1627), as known as House of Mạc ruled the whole of Đại Việt between 1527 and 1540 and the northern part of the country from 1540 until 1593, and ...

from the capital

Thăng Long Hanoi or Ha Noi ( or ; vi, Hà Nội ) is the capital and second-largest city of Vietnam. It covers an area of . It consists of 12 urban districts, one district-leveled town and 17 rural districts. Located within the Red River Delta, Hanoi i ...

.Keith Weller Taylor, John K. Whitmore ''Essays into Vietnamese pasts'' 1995 Page 116 "The crisis in sixteenth-century Đại Việt began in 1504 with the death of Lê Hiến-tông, son of the major fifteenth-century ruler Thánh-tông. It ended eighty-eight years later as the Trịnh drove the Mạc from the capital of Thăng-long."

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Le, Hien Tong Vietnamese monarchs 1461 births 1504 deaths 15th-century Vietnamese monarchs 16th-century Vietnamese monarchs