Trần Thánh Tông
Lê Văn Hưu was a renowned scholar and an official of the royal court of the Trần dynasty during the reign of Trần Thái Tông and Trần Thánh Tông who promoted him to the position of Hàn Lâm viện học sĩ (, Member of the Hanlin Academy) and Quốc sử viện giám tu (Supervisor of the royal bureau for historical records). It was the Emperor Thái Tông who commissioned Lê Văn Hưu to compile the official historical text of the Trần dynasty named "Đại Việt sử ký". The 30-volume ("quyển") text was completed and offered to the Emperor Trần Thánh Tông in January 1272 and was praised by Thánh Tông for its quality. Lê Tắc in his "An Nam chí lược" suggested that the "Đại Việt sử ký" was compiled by Lê Văn Hưu in revising the book "Việt chí" (越志, "Records of Việt") which was written by Trần Phổ after the order of Trần Thái Tông.