Book I 1477th Day (Pyŏngjin)
Lady Kang was made royal consort and invested with the title of Consort
Hyŏn [Hyŏnbi].^120Princes were enfeoffed with new titles. Pangu^121 was named Prince Chinan;
Panggwa [the old honorable name of the former king],^122 Prince Yŏngan,
military commissioner of the Righteousness Flourishing Royal Guards;
Pangŭi,^123 Prince Igan; Panggan,^124 Prince Hoean; Pangwŏn [the honorable
name of the current king], Prince Chŏngan; the nothos Pangbŏn,^125 Prince
Muan and military commissioner of the Righteousness Flourishing Royal
Guards; the king’s son-in-law Yi Che, Prince Hŭng’an and military com-
missioner of the Righteousness Flourishing Royal Guards; and Yang’u, the
son of the king’s stepbrother Wŏn’gye, Prince Yŏng’an.
Wang Yo [King Kongyang] was made Prince Kongyang and sent to Kansŏng
County;^126 and his brother U, Lord of Kwiŭi, sent to Majŏn County,^127 so
that he could continue to hold the ancestral rites of the Wang clan; and Lady
An, the queen dowager [of King Kongmin] of the previous dynasty, enfeoffed
with a title of Ŭihwa Palace Lady An.
- Consort Hyŏn, the new title accorded to Lady Kang, is her courtesy name. Her official
title, which was conferred later, is Queen Sindŏk. - The eldest son of King T’aejo and Queen Sinŭi. He is the ancestor of the Chŏnju
Yi clan. - King Chŏngjong (1399–1400), the second king of the Chosŏn dynasty. He ascended
the throne when his father, King T’aejo, abdicated in 1398. The abdication took place after
T’aejo’s fifth son, Prince Chŏngan (Pangwŏn)—in a power struggle—eliminated his step-
brother Pangsŏk, whom T’aejo had set up as heir apparent. Though Chŏngjong became the
king with the support of his powerful brother Prince Chŏngan, he conceded his throne to the
latter in less than two years. - The third son of King T’aejo and Queen Sinŭi. He supported his younger brother,
Prince Chŏngan, throughout the power struggles among the princes, assisting him in elimi-
nating the clique of Chŏng Tojŏn. - The fourth son of King T’aejo and Queen Sinŭi.
- The seventh son of King T’aejo and Queen Sindŏk, the second wife of T’aejo. The rea-
son that he was presented as a nothos (sŏja) was because he was born of T’aejo’s second wife. - Modern Kosŏng, a district in Kangwŏn Province.
- Modern Yŏnch’ŏn County in the northern part of Kyŏnggi Province, where the
Royal Ancestral Shrine of seven Koryŏ kings, including Wang Kŏn, the founder king, was
located.