Lê Ngọc Hân

Lê Ngọc Hân
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese Lê Thị Ngọc Hân
Hán-Nôm 黎氏玉忻

Lê Thị Ngọc Hân (Chinese: 黎氏玉忻, 1770 - 1799) was an Annamese princess and empress.[1]

Biography

Lê Ngọc Hân was the twenty-first and youngest daughter of emperor Lê Hiển Tông. The court gave Cochinchinese prince Nguyễn Huệ sixteen-year-old princess as a wife. A well-educated girl, she died in 1799 at the age of twenty-nine, leaving two children. She herself was memorialized in a lament by official Phan Huy Ích.

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References

  1. 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: 1740–86) married off his youngest daughter, Princess Lê Ngọc Hân (1770–1799), to Nguyễn Huệ (life: 1753–1792; reign: 1788–92), leader of the .. Lê Ngọc Hân was skilled in classics and history and gifted in writing poetry and prose. In 1786, Nguyễn Huệ brought his troops to the North to exterminate the Trịnh lords controlling the Lê dynasty. The king gave Lê Ngọc Hân, then sixteen,"
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