Jeonju Yi Clan Gwangpyeongdaegun Branch Burial Ground

This is the tomb of Prince Gwangpyeongdaegun (1425–1444), son of King Sejong the Great. His courtesy name was Hwanji, his pen name Myeongseongdang, and his posthumous title Jangui. He entered Seonggyungwan, the state Confucian academy, and applied himself to scholarship, and was also well versed in the Korean language, music and mathematics. Generous and intelligent by nature, he excelled at calligraphy and gyeokgu (a form of polo played on horseback), but died young at the age of twenty. The burial ground best preserves its original form among the tombs of royal descendants surviving near Seoul, and is a communal graveyard containing some 700 graves of the wider clan together with the old house of the head family. It was moved to its present site in 1495, the first year of Yeonsangun's reign, and in 1695, the twenty-first year of King Sukjong, a stele recording the location of the graves was erected. Below the burial ground stands a sindobi, a stele set up by the roadside near a tomb to commemorate the lifetime achievements of a king or high official.

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Where it is

Region

Gangnam-gu, Seoul

Designation

Provincial Tangible Heritage · 시도유형문화유산