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Empress Myeongseong [b] (Korean: 명성황후; Hanja: 明成皇后; 17 November 1851 – 8 October 1895) [c] was the official wife of Gojong, the 26th king of Joseon and the first emperor of the Korean Empire. During her lifetime, she was known by the name Queen Min (민비; 閔妃).
His wife, Queen Min (posthumously honored as Empress Myeongseong), played an active role in politics until her assassination carried out by the Japanese. Gojong oversaw the bulk of the Korean monarchy's final years. He was born into the ruling House of Yi, and was first crowned on 13 December 1863 at the age of twelve.
Sunjong was the second son of Emperor Gojong and Empress Myeongseong.When he turned two years old in 1876, Sunjong was proclaimed the Crown Prince of Joseon. In 1882, he married a woman of the Yeoheung Min clan (later Empress Sunmyeonghyo).
This was because Min Seung-ho was the adoptive son of Min Chi-rok, the father of Empress Myeongseong. Thus making her adoptive uncle the adoptive older brother of Empress Myeongseong who became Queen in 1866 which helped her family thrive. [2] Despite having another son, her father adopted another son from a relative within their clan.
A group of tombs in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, it holds Changneung (창릉) (King Yejong and his second wife, Queen Ansun), Hongneung (홍릉) (Queen Jeongseong, first wife of King Yeongjo; not to be confused with the resting place of Empress Myeongseong and Emperor Gojong in Namyangju), Gyeongneung (경릉) (Crown Prince Uigyeong, who was ...
Internal Princess Consort Hanchang of the Hansan Yi clan (Korean: 한창부부인 이씨; Hanja: 韓昌府夫人 李氏; 1818 – 30 November 1874) was wife of Internal Prince Yeoseong and the mother of Empress Myeongseong, also the maternal grandmother of Emperor Sunjong of Korea. [1]
The royal family shared a few candid images from the ceremony on Instagram and wrote, "The Emperor and Empress of Japan have been welcomed to the UK by The King and Queen during an official ...
On December 4, 1884, five revolutionaries led a small army to Empress Myeongseong's brother's house and initiated a coup d'étât. It failed in three days. It failed in three days. Some coup leaders, including Kim Ok-gyun , fled to Japan, and others were executed.