Yi Jung-ro Jeong Sa Royal Edict for a Meritorious Subject and Portrait – Jeong Sa Royal Edict for a Meritorious Subject Issued to Yi Jung-ro

This royal edict was issued in 1625, the third year of King Injo, granting a posthumous honour to Yi Jung-ro after his death. Yi Jung-ro (1577–1624) was a descendant of Yi Ji-ran, a Founding Meritorious Subject of Joseon, and died in battle together with Yi Seong-bu at Matan, upstream on the Yeseong River, during Yi Gwal's Rebellion. He passed the military examination at the age of sixteen, became a seonjeon-gwan (a royal messenger and liaison officer) the following year, and was made magistrate of Icheon in 1621, the thirteenth year of King Gwanghaegun. In 1623, the first year of King Injo, he took part in the Injo Restoration and was named a second-class Jeong Sa Meritorious Subject, being enfeoffed as Lord of Cheongheung. The edict states that a portrait of Yi Jung-ro was to be painted so that he would be long remembered by later generations, that his official rank was to be raised by two grades, that his parents and his wife and children were likewise to be raised by two grades, and that his eldest son would be permitted to inherit his official position in perpetuity. It further instructs that he be granted, combining government-owned slaves and slaves granted to meritorious subjects, nineteen slaves in all, eighty gyeol of farmland, thirty nyang of silver, one bolt of cloth, and one horse. This edict is valuable material for understanding the details of the rewards given to the meritorious subjects who took part in the Injo Restoration.

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Yongin, Gyeonggi

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Treasure · 보물