Hoangong Ideung and Uiryeong Ongju Burial Ground

The burial ground of Hoangong Ideung and Uiryeong Ongju contains, in order, a mountain-spirit altar, the tomb of Hoangong Ideung, and the tomb of Uiryeong Ongju. Ideung (李登, 1379–1457) had his clan seat in Gaeseong and was the son of Yi Gae (李開), who held the post of Pansasugamsa. He married Uiryeong Ongju (義寧翁主), King Taejo's eldest daughter by a secondary consort, and was invested as Lord Gyecheon in 1435 (the seventeenth year of King Sejong) and given the rank of Bongheondaebu in 1444 (the twenty-sixth year of King Sejong). He died in 1457 (the third year of King Sejo) at the age of 79; his posthumous title was Hoan (胡安). Uiryeong Ongju's birth year is unknown, but the inscription on her memorial stone, "成化二年二月初一日禮葬" (official burial on the first day of the second month of the second year of Chenghua), shows that she died in 1466. An entry on Ideung in the Veritable Records of King Jeong Jong describes Uiryeong Ongju as "the daughter of a favoured consort of the Retired Sovereign," while an entry on her son Yi Seon in the Veritable Records of King Sejong refers to her mother as "the maternal grandmother, Lady Ju, holder of the rank of Chandeok." Together these confirm that her mother was Lady Ju, a consort of King Taejo ranked Chandeok. The Seonwon gyebo giryak, a genealogical record of the royal clan, further states that, as Taejo's eldest daughter by a concubine, she married Ideung, Commandant of Gyecheon, of the Gaeseong Yi clan, and bore four sons and three daughters: the eldest son Yi Hwang, the second son Munryanggong Yi Seon, the third son Yi Rim, and the fourth son Yi Hyo; the eldest daughter married Jeong So of the Jinju Jeong clan, the second daughter married Kim Maeng-hyeong of the Cheongdo Kim clan, and the third daughter married Yi Man-saeng of the Sinpyeong Yi clan. According to Ideung's obituary entry of the first day of the seventh month of 1457 in the Veritable Records of King Sejo, his tomb was built by the state. It faces south. Three tiers of terrace-retaining stones divide the burial ground into upper, middle and lower levels. The mound is square (about 4 × 5m) and built of rectangular stones, clearly showing the style of the late Goryeo–early Joseon period. Its stone furnishings — a memorial stone, an offering table, and two civil-official statues (munindol) — all stand on the upper and middle tiers. The memorial stone is carved from a single block combining capstone and stele body, the capstone in the form of a flower-crown stone. The front of the stele reads "啓川尉贈諡胡安公李登之墓" (Tomb of Ideung, Commandant of Gyecheon, posthumously titled Lord Hoan); the back bears, across the top, "主山壬坐丙向" (the site faces im-jwa byeong-hyang), and below it "天順元年丁丑七月初一日壬戌卒" (died on the imsul day, the first day of the seventh month, the jeongchuk year, the first year of Tianshun) and "越九月初九日庚午禮葬" (officially buried on the gyeongo day, the ninth day of the ninth month). The two civil-official statues on the middle tier wear an official's cap and court robe (bokdu-gongbok), their hands holding a ceremonial tablet rendered simply; behind the cap the two flaps are shown raised to the sides, and most detail, including the robe folds, is rendered in shallow incised lines — features typical of jangseung-style civil-official statues of the late Goryeo–early Joseon period. Behind Ideung's tomb stands a roughly square mountain-spirit altar, its four sides built of roughly dressed rectangular stones. Below it, Uiryeong Ongju's tomb has a single tier of terrace-retaining stones and consists of a round mound (about 5m in diameter), a memorial stone, an offering table, and two civil-official statues. Her memorial stone is likewise a single block; its capstone appears to be a flower-crown stone, though less finely carved. The front reads "義寧翁主之墓" (Tomb of Uiryeong Ongju), and the back preserves a faint inscription believed to read "成化二年二月初一日禮葬." The civil-official statues are similar in form to those at Ideung's tomb, also wearing bokdu-gongbok.

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Where it is

Region

Dobong-gu, Seoul

Designation

Provincial Monument · 시도기념물