Yasokjin

Yasokjin (? - 1316), also known by her posthumous title Consort Ui, was a Mongol consort of King Chungseon and the mother of King Chungsuk of the Goryeo dynasty.

Yasokjin
야속진
Consort of Goryeo
Died1316
Khanbaliq, Yuan Dynasty
Burial
Yeolleung, Kingdom of Goryeo
SpouseKing Chungseon of Goryeo
IssueWang Kam, Prince Gwangneun
King Chungsuk of Goryeo
Posthumous name
Consort Ui
의비
懿妃
Yasokjin
Hangul
Hanja
Revised RomanizationYasokjin
McCune–ReischauerYasokchin
Posthumous name
Hangul
Hanja
Revised RomanizationUi Bi
McCune–ReischauerŬi Bi

Biography

Yasokjin was an ethnic Mongol, but she was not a member of the Yuan imperial clan.[1] It is unknown what year she became a consort of King Chungseon, but she gave birth to Wang Do (왕도), the future King Chungsuk, in 1294.[2] She died in 1316, the third year of her son's reign, whilst in the Yuan dynasty. On her death, she was granted the posthumous title of Consort Ui.[3][1]

Burial

As the preparations for Yasokjin's burial had not been completed in Goryeo, her body was cremated and buried in Yuan by the Goryeo official Kim Yi (Korean: 김이; Hanja: 金怡), who visited her grave every month to present offerings of meat and wine. After three years, the King wanted to move his mother to a burial site on West Mountain near Khanbaliq, a move that Kim Yi opposed. Kim paid a diviner to tell the king that 'if one is enshrined in one's own country, there will be no disaster later.'[4] The king was persuaded and had Yasokjin's ashes returned to Goryeo, where they were buried at Yeolleung (Korean: 연릉; Hanja: 衍陵).[5]

Family
  1. Wang Kam, Prince Gwangneun (? - 1310) (광릉군 왕감)
  2. King Chungsuk (30 July 1294 – 3 May 1339)

References
  1. Morihira Masahiko 森平雅彦 (2008). 高麗王家とモンゴル皇族の通婚関係に閲する覚書 [Memoranda on marriage links between the Goryeo royal clan and Mongolian imperial family] (PDF) (in Japanese). Kyoto University Press. p. 13.
  2. Jeong In-ji, ed. (1451). "충숙왕 총서" [King Chungsuk series]. 고려사 (高丽史) [History of Goryeo] (in Chinese and Korean). 34. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
  3. Jeong In-ji, ed. (1451). "충선왕 후비 의비" [Consort Ui of King Chungseon]. 고려사 (高丽史) [History of Goryeo] (in Chinese and Korean). 89. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
  4. 본국에 안치(安置)하면 나중에 화(禍)가 없을 것입니다 (安庴本國, 無後禍).
  5. Jeong In-ji, ed. (1451). "김이: 김이가 김심의 당여로 몰려 좌천되다" [Kim Yi, 'Kim Yi is relegated to Kim Shim's party']. 고려사 (高丽史) [History of Goryeo] (in Chinese and Korean). 108. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
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