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Yi Ja-gyeom

Head of the Gyeongwon Yi clan, father-in-law to two kings, who rebelled in 1126 and fell

The Gyeongwon Yi clan was the foremost aristocratic lineage, repeatedly marrying into the royal house. When Injong had his confidants try to remove him, Yi and Cheok Jun-gyeong set the palace on fire and confined the king in Yi's house. He is said to have coveted the throne, believing a prophecy that a man surnamed Yi would become king. Injong won over Cheok Jun-gyeong, who seized Yi and sent him into exile; the rebellion began to shake aristocratic society.

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    1126Yi Ja-gyeom’s Rebellionleader

    Yi Ja-gyeom, King Injong’s maternal grandfather and father-in-law, burned the palace with Cheok Jun-gyeong and held the king captive; Injong won Cheok over and removed Yi.

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  • Cheok Jun-gyeong1144

    General who joined Yi Ja-gyeom’s revolt, then turned on him at the king’s urging

  • King Injong1109 – 1146

    Seventeenth king of Goryeo, who faced the revolts of Yi Ja-gyeom and Myocheong and commissioned the Samguk sagi

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  • Song, Ming and Samurai JapanAD 960 – 1500

    The age when the civil-minded Song bought peace from Liao, Western Xia and Jin while the lower Yangtze boomed and Neo-Confucianism took shape, and the Ming, having driven out the Yuan, rebuilt the East Asian order through imperial autocracy, the sea ban and tribute — as Japan passed through the Kamakura and Muromachi warrior governments into the Warring States era, and Korea from Goryeo to Joseon

  • GaeseongAD 901 – 2003

    From Wang Geon, lord of Songak, to the Kaesong Industrial Complex — Gaegyeong, Goryeo’s capital for five centuries, and home of the Song merchants