Queen Jeonghwa of the Sincheon Gang clan (, personal name Gang Jin-ui, was the second daughter of
Gang Bo-yuk who would become the great-grandmother of
Wang Geon
Taejo of Goryeo (31 January 877 – 4 July 943), also known as Taejo Wang Geon (; ), was the founder of the Goryeo dynasty, which ruled Korea from the 10th to the 14th century. Taejo ruled from 918 to 943, achieving unification of the Later Thre ...
, founder of the
Goryeo dynasty. As a figure from the
Later Silla
Unified Silla, or Late Silla (, ), is the name often applied to the Korean kingdom of Silla, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, after 668 CE. In the 7th century, a Silla–Tang alliance conquered Baekje and the southern part of Goguryeo in the ...
period, she is the first one from among the ancestors of King Taejo to be accurately reported by the left records.
Biography
Gang Chung was a son of
Gang Ho-gyeong who was the 67th descendant of
Gang Hou. Gang Hou was the second child of
Gang Shu who was from Zingzhao country,
Shangxi province in
China. He had three children named as I-Jegeon, Bo-Seung and
Gang Bo Yuk. Gang Bo Yuk married with his niece Gang Deju and their daughter Kang Jin-ui (강진의, 康辰義) was born. Kang Jin-ui married a Chinese man and birthed the future King
Uijo of Goryeo. The father of King Uijo was from a
royal family of the
Tang dynasty
The Tang dynasty (, ; zh, t= ), or Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907 AD, with an interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdom ...
, China. According to ''
Pyeonnyeon-Tong-Long'' (
:ko:편년통록) and ''
Goryeosa jeolyo'' (
:ko:고려사절요), he was
Emperor Suzong of Tang
Emperor Suzong of Tang (''yihai'' day, 711 – 16 May 762; r. 756 – 762), personal name Li Heng, né Li Sisheng (), known as Li Jun () from 725 to 736, known as Li Yu () from 736 to 738, known briefly as Li Shao () in 738, was an emperor of t ...
. In ''Pyeonnyeongangmog'' (), it stated that
Emperor Xuānzong of Tang
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang (July 27, 810 – September 7, 859) (reigned April 25, 846 – September 7, 859) was an emperor in the latter part of the Tang dynasty of China. Personally named Li Yi, later renamed Li Chen (), and known before his rei ...
was the father of King Uijo. When his father visited
Silla
Silla or Shilla (57 BCE – 935 CE) ( , Old Korean: Syera, Old Japanese: Siraki2) was a Korean kingdom located on the southern and central parts of the Korean Peninsula. Silla, along with Baekje and Goguryeo, formed the Three Kingdoms ...
, King Uijo of Goryeo was born between his Chinese father and Kang Jin-ui who was a daughter of Gang Bo-yuk. On the way of finding his father to China, King Uijo met
Queen Wonchang and married her. According to ''Record of Seongwon'' (), Queen Wonchang was a daughter of Tou En Dian Jiao Gan from
Ping state
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* Ping, a c ...
(
:zh:平州刺史部), China. Queen Wonchang gave birth to 4 boys; one of them whose name was
Wang Ryung
Wang Ryung (died May 897), more commonly known by his Temple name of Sejo or Posthumous name of King Wimu the Great. He was a general and politician during the Later Goguryeo periods who would become the father of Wang Geon, founder of the Goryeo ...
. His son eventually became the founder of Goryeo,
Taejo of Goryeo.
According to ''
Goryeosa'', her elder sister climbed the top of Mount Ogwan () in the dream. In the dream, she urinated as the world overflows and she talked about this dream to Jin-ui. Jin-ui thought this dream implied good luck and she bought her sister's dream with her silk woven
Chima jeogori. After that she met the royal family from Tang dynasty in Silla and gave birth to King Uijo of Goryeo.
Family
*Father:
Gang Bo-yuk (강보육, 康寶育)
**Grandfather:
Gang Chung (강충, 康忠); son of
Gang Ho-gyeong (강호경, 康虎景), founder of the
Sincheon Gang clan.
**Grandmother: Lady Gu of the Buja Gu clan (부자 구씨)
***Uncle: Yi Je-geon (이제건, 伊帝建)
***Uncle: Gang Bo-jeon (강보전, 康寶甸)
*Mother: Lady Gang Deok-ju (강덕주, 康德州); niece of her husband.
**Grandfather: Yi Je-geon (이제건, 伊帝建)
***Older sister: Lady Gang (강씨, 康氏)
*Husband:
Gukjo, King Wondeok the Great (국조 원덕대왕)
**Son:
Jak Jae-geon, King Uijo of Goryeo (고려 의조)
***Daughter-in-law: Yong-nyeo (용녀, 龍女) / Jeo Min-ui (저민의, 渚旻義/焉旻義),
Queen Wonchang (원창왕후)
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Royal consorts of the Goryeo Dynasty
Silla people
8th-century Korean women