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Emperor of Đại Việt | |||||||||||||||||
Bronze statue of Emperor Lý Nhân Tông, Temple of Literature, Hanoi.
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Emperor of Lý Dynasty | |||||||||||||||||
Reign | 1072–1127 | ||||||||||||||||
Predecessor | Lý Thánh Tông | ||||||||||||||||
Successor | Lý Thần Tông | ||||||||||||||||
Born | 22 February 1066 Thăng Long, Đại Việt |
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Died | 15 January 1127 Vietnam |
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Burial | Thiên Đức Lăng | ||||||||||||||||
Spouse | Empresses Lan Anh, Khâm Thiên and Chấn Bảo | ||||||||||||||||
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House | Lý Dynasty | ||||||||||||||||
Father | Lý Thánh Tông | ||||||||||||||||
Mother | Ỷ Lan | ||||||||||||||||
Religion | Buddhism |
Full name | |
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Lý Càn Đức (李乾德) | |
Era dates | |
Thái Ninh (1072–1076) Anh Vũ Chiêu Thắng (1076–1084) Quảng Hựu (1085–1092) Hội Phong (1092–1100) Long Phù (1101–1109) Hội Tường Đại Khánh (1110–1119) Thiên Phù Duệ Vũ (1120–1126) Thiên Phù Khánh Thọ (1127–1127) |
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Posthumous name | |
Hiếu từ Thánh thần Văn vũ Hoàng đế | |
Temple name | |
Nhân Tông (仁宗) |
Lý Nhân Tông | |
Vietnamese name | |
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Vietnamese | Lý Nhân Tông |
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Lý Nhân Tông (22 February 1066–15 January 1127), given name Lý Càn Đức, was the fourth emperor of the Lý Dynasty, reigning over Vietnam from 1072 to his death in 1127. Succeeding his father Lý Thánh Tông at the age of 7, during his early reign Lý Nhân Tông ruled with the assistance of his mother Ỷ Lan and the chancellor Lý Đạo Thành who were both considered competent regents and were able to help the emperor maintain the country's prosperity. Appreciated as a great emperor of the Lý Dynasty, Lý Nhân Tông made important contributions to the development of Đại Việt, especially for establishing Confucianism as the official philosophy of the state, creating Confucian-based imperial exams, and creating schools based on the Confucian system of learning During his 55-year reign, which was the longest reign for any Vietnamese monarch, Lý Nhân Tông also experienced several wars against Đại Việt's neighbours, the Song Dynasty and the kingdom of Champa in which the Song-Lý War (1075–1076) was the fiercest.
Nhân Tông was born in the first month of the lunar calendar in 1066 as Lý Càn Đức to the emperor Lý Thánh Tông and his concubine Ỷ Lan. It was said that Lý Thánh Tông was unable to have his own son up to the age of 40, so he paid a visit to Buddhist pagodas all over the country to pray for a child. Therefore, right after the birth, Lý Càn Đức was entitled crown prince of the Lý Dynasty while Lady Ỷ Lan was granted the title Imperial Concubine. To celebrate the event that lifted the emperor's constraint of dying without issue, Lý Thánh Tông changed his era name from Chương Thánh Gia Khánh (聖) to Long Chương Thiên Tự () and gave out a general amnesty for prisoners.