Lê Hiến Tông (

chữ Hán ( , ) are the Chinese characters that were used to write Literary Chinese in Vietnam, Literary Chinese (; ) and Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary in Vietnamese language, Vietnamese. They were officially used in Vietnam after the Red River Delta region ...

: 黎憲宗, 10 August 1461 – 24 May 1504) was the 6th emperor of Vietnam's

Lê dynasty The Lê dynasty, also known in historiography as the Later Lê dynasty (, chữ Hán: 朝後黎, chữ Nôm: 茹後黎), officially Đại Việt (; Chữ Hán: 大越), was the longest-ruling List of Vietnamese dynasties, Vietnamese dynasty, h ...

reigning over

Đại Việt Đại Việt (, ; literally Great Việt), was a Vietnamese monarchy in eastern Mainland Southeast Asia from the 10th century AD to the early 19th century, centered around the region of present-day Hanoi. Its early name, Đại Cồ Việt,(ch ...

from 1497 to 1504. 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 Trịnh is a Vietnamese family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full na ...

drove the Mạc dynasty from the capital Thăng Long.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 Royalty from Hanoi