Tôn Thất Đính ( vi-hantu, 尊室訂, 15 July 1812–5 July 1893) was a Vietnamese

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of the

Nguyễn dynasty The Nguyễn dynasty (, chữ Nôm: 茹阮, chữ Hán: 朝阮) was the last List of Vietnamese dynasties, Vietnamese dynasty, preceded by the Nguyễn lords and ruling unified Vietnam independently from 1802 until French protectorate in 1883 ...

who served under Emperor

Tự Đức Tự Đức (, vi-hantu, :wikt:嗣, 嗣:wikt:德, 德, , 22 September 1829 – 19 July 1883) (personal name: Nguyễn Phúc Hồng Nhậm, also Nguyễn Phúc Thì) was the fourth emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty of Vietnam, and the country's la ...

. He was a descendant of

Tôn Thất Hiệp Tôn (孫) (Anglicised as Ton) is a Vietnamese surname. It is transliterated as Sun in Chinese and Son in Korean. Notable people *Tôn Đức Thắng (1888–1980), first President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam * Tôn Hiếu Anh (), Vietn ...

(Nguyễn Phúc Thuần).Hệ Năm Nguyễn Phúc Tộc - Gia Phả Pḥng Tư của ngài Nguyễn Phúc Thuần
see 5.1.4.5A Tôn Thất Đính was the governor of

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. He was allowed home in 1864 due to ill health, however, after recovery, his position was never resumed because of his poor eyesight. His son

Tôn Thất Thuyết Tôn Thất Thuyết ( 尊室説; 12 May 1839 in Huế – 1913 in Longzhou), Courtesy name Đàm Phu (談夫), was the regent and leading mandarin of Emperor Tự Đức of Vietnam's Nguyễn dynasty. Thuyết later led the Cần Vươn ...

went on to become a high-ranking mandarin, who became the regent upon the death of Tự Đức. After Thuyết launched the Cần Vương movement that attempted to install the boy Emperor

Hàm Nghi Emperor Hàm Nghi (, vi-hantu, lit. "entirely right", 3 August 1871 – 14 January 1944), personal name Nguyễn Phúc Ưng Lịch (), also Nguyễn Phúc Minh, was the eighth emperor of the Vietnamese Nguyễn dynasty. He reigned for only one ...

as the head of an independent Vietnam, the French colonial authorities captured Đính in an attempt to get his son to capitulate. However, Thuyết continued fighting against French. Tôn Thất Đính and his offspring were banished from the imperial clan. Đính was not allowed to use the surname ''

Tôn Thất Tôn Thất (or Tôn Nữ for female) is a two-character Vietnamese compound surname, originating from the Nguyễn dynasty. It is the surname for members of the imperial family that were not direct first-born descendants of the Emperor, and therefo ...

'', and forced to rename himself ''Lê Đính'' (黎訂). Đính was thrown into

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together with two mandarins,

Nguyễn Văn Tường Nguyễn Văn Tường ( vi-hantu, , 1824–1886) was a mandarin of the Nguyễn dynasty in Vietnam. He is known for installing and dethroning two emperors in 1883–84: Dục Đức and Hiệp Hoà. Biography Tường was born in Q ...

and Phạm Thận Duật. Later, they were deported to

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in the

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. While on the sea voyage, Duật died, and the authorities threw his body overboard. Đính was allowed to come back to Vietnam in 1886. He brought the body of Nguyễn Văn Tường back to

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. He died on 5 July 1893.

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