Lê Ngọc Hân

Princess Lê Thị Ngọc Hân (1770–1799) was a Vietnamese princess of the Later Lê dynasty and Empress Consort of emperor Quang Trung of the Tây Sơn dynasty.^[1]

Lê Ngọc Hân
Queen (Empress) consort of Đại Nam
Tenure	1786?–1792
Born	1770
Died	1799

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

Biography

Lê Thị Ngọc Hân was the twenty-first and youngest daughter of emperor Lê Hiển Tông who arranged her marriage at the age of sixteen to Nguyễn Huệ, who later reigned as Emperor Quang Trung, for whom she left two admirable poems in chữ Nôm, moving laments for her husband.^[2]

She herself was memorialized in a lament by Phan Huy Ích.

References

1. Nguyên Thi Minh Hà, Nguyên Thi Thanh Bình Annamese feminist poems from antiquity to the present 2007 Page 81 "King Lê Hiển Tông (life: 1716–1786; reign: 1740–86) married off his youngest daughter, Princess Lê Thị Ngọc Hân (1770–1799), to Nguyễn Huệ (life: 1753–1792; reign: 1788–92), leader of the .. Lê Thị 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,"
2. Thomas Hodgkin Vietnam: the revolutionary path 1981 – Page 87 "gave him his sixteen-year-old daughter, Le Thi Ngoc Han, as a wife. A well-educated girl, she died in 1799 at the age of twenty-nine, leaving two children and two admirable poems in nom, moving laments for her husband ..."