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Queen Wongyeong

Type Figure Region Joseon Time 1365–1420 Also known as Min clan

Queen Wongyeong of the Min clan (1365–1420), principal consort of Joseon's Taejong Yi Bang-won and mother of Sejong Yi Do.

Timeline

  1. 1382–1391Yeoju · Gyeonggi ProvinceBorn into the prominent Yeoheung Min clan, she married Yi Bang-won, second son of Yi Seong-gye, as his principal consort, supporting her husband as consort from the late Goryeo period to the eve of the dynasty's founding.
  2. 1392–1400Hanseong · Joseon dynastyAfter Joseon's founding in 1392 Min became crown princess consort; in the 1398 Prince's Strife she supported Yi Bang-won, and after he took the throne in 1400 she was invested as queen, bearing princes including Sejong Yi Do.
  3. 1400–1420Hanseong · Joseon dynastyWhile invested as queen she oversaw inner court women's affairs and raised princes including Sejong; she died in 1420, was posthumously named Wongyeong, and was buried jointly with Taejong at Hyeolleung.

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