Lê Hiển Tông (; 20 May 171710 August 1786), born Lê Duy Diêu, was the penultimate emperor of the Vietnamese

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 ...

. He reigned from 1740 to 1786 and was succeeded by his grandson Lê Duy Kỳ.Nguyên Thi Minh Hà, Nguyên Thi Thanh Bình – ''Vietnamese feminist poems from antiquity to the present'' 2007 Page 81 "King Lẽ Hiển Tông (life: 1716–1786; reign: 1740–1786) married off his youngest daughter, Princess Lê Ngọc Hân (1770–1799), to Nguyễn Huệ (life: 1753–1792; reign: 1788–1792), leader of the ..." At the time Vietnam was under the power of 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 ...

. During the reigns of Lê Thuần Tông (1732–1735) and Lê Ý Tông (1735–1740),

Trịnh Giang Trịnh Giang ( vi-hantu, 鄭杠; 14 October 1711 – 30 December 1762) ruled northern Vietnam (Tonkin) from 1729 to 1740. His title as ruling lord (''chua'') was ''Uy Nam Vương''. He was one of the Trịnh Lords who ruled Vietnam. He was a bad r ...

ruled Vietnam with the title Uy Nam Vương, but he was deposed in 1740 due to poor leadership. From 1740 to 1767,

Trịnh Doanh Trịnh Doanh (4 December 1720 – 15 February 1767) ruled northern Vietnam (Tonkin) from 1740 to 1767 (he ruled with the title ''Minh Đô Vương''). Trịnh Doanh was the third son of Trịnh Cương, and belonged to the line of Trịnh lords w ...

ruled with the title Minh Do Vương in the first part of the reign of Lê Hiển Tông. He was followed by

Trịnh Sâm Trịnh Sâm (, 9 February 1739 – 13 September 1782) ruled northern Vietnam from 1767 to 1782 AD. He ruled with the title "Tĩnh Đô Vương" () and was one of the last of the powerful Trịnh lords. Trịnh Sâm defeated the ancient enemy of t ...

, who ruled from 1767 to 1782 with the title Tinh Do Vương. At this point the Lê dynasty began to regain its power.

Issue

He had twenty-three children, including: * Crown prince Lê Duy Vĩ, executed by the

in 1771 * Lê Duy Cận (died after 1786) * Princess Lê Thị Ngọc Hân * Princess Lê Thị Ngọc Bình

References

Sources

* * Hien Tong 1717 births 1786 deaths 18th-century Vietnamese monarchs Vietnamese monarchs Royalty from Hanoi {{Vietnam-royal-stub