On Lê Thuần Tông's death Trịnh Giang passed over the eldest prince and chose Lê Duy Thận, a younger son of Lê Dụ Tông raised in the lord's palace.
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Accession of Lê Ý Tông
- 5 June 1735
- Southeast Asia
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