Hwauiguniyeong Burial Ground

This burial ground contains the tomb of Hwaui-gun Yi Yeong (1425 to after 1489), a son of King Sejong, the fourth king of Joseon, who suffered political persecution at the hands of King Sejo for his part in the movement to restore King Danjong to the throne. Hwaui-gun Yi Yeong was born in 1425, the seventh year of King Sejong, as the sixth son, and first son by a concubine, of King Sejong. His mother was Lady Yeongbin Gang. He later became the son-in-law of Park Jung-son, and was also the brother-in-law of Park Paeng-nyeon, one of the Sayuksin, the six ministers martyred for their loyalty to King Danjong. He was invested as Hwaui-gun in 1433, the fifteenth year of King Sejong. When King Sejo took the throne in 1455, censorial officials impeached him for colluding with Geumseong Daegun and Lady Hyebin Yang to disturb the foundations of the state, and he was banished to a distant region; he was pardoned in 1456. That same year, after taking part in the plot to restore the retired king, King Danjong, his property was confiscated, his certificate of office was revoked, and he was placed under restricted residence in Geumsan, Jeolla-do. In 1457, when Geumseong Daegun, then exiled in Sunheung, plotted with the Sunheung magistrate Yi Bo-heum to restore King Danjong and was subsequently put to death, and Nosan-gun, the demoted King Danjong, who had been banished to Yeongwol, was strangled, Hwaui-gun was implicated in the affair and placed under the same restriction as Hannam-gun Yi Eo, Yeongpung-gun Yi Jeon and Jeong Jong. According to the Veritable Records of King Seongjong, Hwaui-gun Yi Yeong was granted a special pardon and freedom of residence outside the capital in 1482, the thirteenth year of King Seongjong, and in 1484, the fifteenth year of King Seongjong, was granted freedom of residence in and outside the capital in accordance with the final testament of Queen Dowager Jeonghui. In 1489, the twentieth year of King Seongjong, when Hwaui-gun, then sixty-five, petitioned the throne to have his illegitimate son, who was implicated in his father's offence and living as a commoner, received back into the royal clan, King Seongjong, after deliberation at court, exempted Yi Yeong's descendants from menial servile labour; this record suggests that he did not, in fact, die at Geumsan at the age of thirty-six after receiving the royal order to take poison. Hwaui-gun was said to be deeply learned and a man of principle, and skilled in cursive script and clerical script calligraphy. He was especially renowned among the royal clan, alongside the Sayuksin, as a man of deep principle, and in the reign of King Jeongjo was named, together with Anpyeong Daegun Yi Yong, Geumseong Daegun Yi Yu, Hannam-gun Yi Eo, Yeongpung-gun Yi Jeon and Haryeong-gun Yi Yang, as one of the Yukjongyeong, the six loyal royal kinsmen, and after deliberation at court was enshrined for additional worship at the Baesikdan, the memorial altar at Jangneung Royal Tomb.

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Where it is

Region

Eunpyeong-gu, Seoul

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물