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{{Infobox royalty
| name         = Lệ Thiên Anh Hoàng hậu<br>儷天英皇后
| title        = Empress Lệ Thiên
| image        =
| birth_date   = 20 June 1828
| birth_place  = [[Lệ Thủy District]], [[Quảng Bình Province]], [[Vietnam]]
| death_date   = {{Death date and age|1902|6|3|1828|6|20}}
| death_place  = [[Huế]], [[Vietnam]]
| father       = [[Vũ Xuân Cẩn]]
| mother       = Lady Trần
| spouse       = Emperor [[Tự Đức]]
| issue        = [[Dục Đức]] (adoptive-son)
| place of burial = [[Tomb of Tự Đức|Khiêm lăng]]
| full name    = Vũ Thị Duyên (武氏緣) ''or'' Vũ Thị Hài (武氏諧)
| succession   = Imperial Noble Consort of the [[Nguyễn dynasty]]
| reign        = 1870&ndash;1883
| reign-type   = Tenure
| predecessor  = None
| successor    = Imperial Noble Consort [[Nguyễn Hữu Thị Nhàn]]
| succession1  = Empress mother of the [[Nguyễn dynasty]]
| reign1       = 1883&ndash;1889
| reign-type1  = Tenure
| predecessor1 = Empress Mother [[Từ Dụ]]
| successor1   = Empress Mother [[Phan Thị Điều|Từ Minh]]
| succession2  = Grand Empress mother of the [[Nguyễn dynasty]]
| reign2       = 1889&ndash;1902
| reign-type2  = Tenure
| predecessor2 = Grand Empress Mother [[Từ Dụ]]
| successor2   = Grand Empress Mother [[Nguyễn Hữu Thị Nhàn|Khôn Nguyên]]
| succession3  = [[Empress consort]] of the [[Nguyễn dynasty]]
| reign3       = ''title granted posthumously''
| reign-type3  = Tenure
| predecessor3 = [[Từ Dụ|Empress Nghi Thiên]]
| successor3   = [[Từ Minh|Empress Từ Minh]]
| house        = [[House of Nguyễn Phúc|Nguyễn Phúc]] (by marriage)
| posthumous name = '''Short:''' Lệ Thiên Anh Hoàng hậu 儷天英皇后<br />'''Full:''' Lệ Thiên Phụ Thánh Trang Ý Thuận Hiếu Cần Thứ Ôn Từ Hiền Minh Tĩnh Thọ Anh hoàng hậu <br/>儷天輔聖莊懿順孝勤恕溫慈賢明靜壽英皇后
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'''Trang Ý''' ({{lang-vi-hantu|莊懿}}, 20 June 1828 &ndash; 3 June 1902), born '''Vũ Thị Hài''' or '''Vũ Thị Duyên''', was the wife of [[Tự Đức]] and adopted-mother of [[Dục Đức]].<ref name=suluoc/>
She was a daughter of [[Vũ Xuân Cẩn]]. She had no child with Tự Đức, and adopted Dục Đức. After Tự Đức's death, she was granted the title '''Empress Khiêm''' ({{langx|vi|Khiêm Hoàng hậu}}), and elevated to the position of one of the "Tam Cung" (三宮) together with [[Từ Dụ]] and [[Học phi|Imperial Dowager Consort Nguyễn Văn Thị Hương]].<ref name="c15">Chapuis, p. 15.</ref>
[[Tôn Thất Thuyết]] decided to launch the [[Cần Vương]] movement against French colonists. "Tam Cung" fled to [[Tomb of Tự Đức]] together with Emperor [[Hàm Nghi]]. Thuyết decided to take them to a mountain base at [[Tân Sở]], and then went to China to hide and seek reinforcements.<ref>Chapuis, pp. 18, 22.</ref> "Tam Cung" refused, and came back to [[Huế]].<ref name=suluoc>''[[Việt Nam sử lược]]'', [[:s:vi:Việt Nam sử lược/Quyển II/Cận kim thời đại/Chương XIV|Quyển 2, Cận kim thời đại, Chương 14]]</ref>
She was granted the title '''Empress Dowager Trang Ý''' ({{langx|vi|Trang Ý hoàng thái hậu}}) by [[Đồng Khánh]] in 1887, and elevated to '''Grand Empress Dowager Trang Ý''' ({{langx|vi|Trang Ý thái hoàng thái hậu}}) by [[Thành Thái]] in 1889. She died in 1902, and was given the posthumous name ''Empress Lệ Thiên''.
==References==
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*{{cite book|title=The Last Emperors of Vietnam: from Tu Duc to Bao Dai|first=Oscar|last=Chapuis |publisher=[[Greenwood Press]]|year=2000|isbn=0-313-31170-6}}
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