Lê Dụ Tông (
Hán Nôm : 黎裕宗, 1679 – 27 February 1731), born Lê Duy Đường (黎維禟) was an emperor of
Vietnam
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, the 22nd emperor of the
Later Lê dynasty.
Biography
Crown 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 (). He was succeeded by
Lê Duy Phường, also known as the second emperor to carry the title as Hôn Đức Công (means "degraded morality").
[Bruce M. Lockhart, William J. Duiker ''The A to Z of Vietnam'' 2010 p437 "Lê Dụ Tông".]
Relatives
;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, 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
Notes
References
Further reading
Bibliography
*
George Coedes. ''The Making of South East Asia'', 2nd ed.
University of California
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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
Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) ('','' TP.HCM; ), commonly known as Saigon (; ), is the most populous city in Vietnam with a population of around 14 million in 2025.
The city's geography is defined by rivers and canals, of which the largest is Saigo ...
,
Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...
, 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.
External links
*Hồ Bạch Thảo, ''Essays about Emperor Lê Dụ Tông (in Vietnamese)'
123
vanchuongviet.info, February 2, 2025.
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1679 births
1731 deaths
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Vietnamese emperors who abdicated
Vietnamese monarchs
Royalty from Hanoi