Lê Trung Tông (chữ Hán: 黎中宗, 1535 – 24 January 1556), birth name Lê Huyên (黎暄), posthumously known as ''Vũ Hoàng đế'', was the 13th emperor of the

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, reigned from 1548 to 1556. He succeeded Lê Trang Tông (1533–1548) and was succeeded by

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(1556–1573). The emperor ruled in name only however, as the

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monopolized the royal court while the

Mạc dynasty The Mạc dynasty (; Hán-Nôm: 茹莫/ 朝莫) (1527–1677), officially Đại Việt (Chữ Hán: 大越), was a Vietnamese dynasty which ruled over a unified Vietnam between 1527 and 1540, and northern Vietnam from 1540 until 1593. The M ...

ruled in the far north and the

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seized control of the southern part of Vietnam up to Thanh Hoa.

Sources

* ''Đại Việt Thông Sử'',

Lê Quý Đôn (chữ Hán: (; 2 August 1726 – 11 June 1784), , on his pen name is Doãn Hậu , and Quế Đường was an 18th-century Vietnamese poet, encyclopedist, and government official. His pseudonym was Quế - Đường. He was a native of Duye ...

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