Yi Hui-sin

Yi Hui-sin (李羲臣, 12th generation descendant of the Deokhsu Yi clan), 1535 – 1587 (Jungjong 30 – Seonjo 20). A civil official of the mid-Joseon period. Clan seat: Deokhsu (德水). Courtesy name Yeo-ik (汝翼), and his concurrent rank was Champ'an (參判). Posthumously granted the title Vice Minister of War and Concurrent Governor of Jibusa, Chief Commander of the Five Guards Command. His great-grandfather was Yi Geo (李琚), who served as Junior Censor of the Office of the Inspector General, Vice Director of the Ministry of War, and others; his grandfather was Yi Baek-rok (李百祿), who served as Attendant of the Pyeongsiseo; and his father was Yi Jeong (李貞), posthumously Left State Councillor and Duke Deokyeon Buwongun, who was the father of Admiral Yi Sun-sin (李舜臣) and the eldest elder brother of Admiral Yi Sun-sin.

Life

• Born in the 30th year of Jungjong's reign (1535).
• Died on the 24th day of the first month of the 20th year of Seonjo's reign (1587), at the age of 53.
• Posthumously granted the title Vice Minister of War and Concurrent Governor of Jibusa, Chief Commander of the Five Guards Command.
• His spouse was Posthumously Lady Jeongbu of the Jinju Gang clan; her father was Gang Se-on, Senior Sixth Rank, her grandfather was Chamber Gang Jo-heung, and her maternal grandfather was Yi Jong-gan of Gwangju. Death anniversary: 19th day of the 6th month.
• His tomb is located at Eoraesan ridge behind the Yi Chungmu tomb and stele, Goryongsan 12-38, Eumbong-myeon, Asan-si, Chungcheongnam-do, where he is enshrined in a double tomb among the ancestral graves.
• He had 4 sons and 2 daughters. Second son Yi Bun (李芬), who authored the Chungmugong Haengnok, and youngest son Yi Wan (李莞), Lord Gangmin, who died in the Manchu invasion of 1627 (Jeongmyo Horan), are well known.

Evaluation

The name Hui-sin (羲臣) was given by his father, Duke Deokyeon Buwongun Yi Jeong (李貞), who, following the generational character 臣 (sin), referred to Fuxi (伏羲氏), the first of the legendary Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors of China.

Referring to the gift deed dated March 12, 1588, written by his mother Lady Chogye Byeon (草溪卞氏), Champ'an Yi Hui-sin (李羲臣) was the eldest son and was allotted as the heir of the family line (承重). In the 9th year of Seonjo (1576), when the third son Yi Sun-sin (李舜臣) passed the civil service examination, only a record of receiving 2 male servants and 2 female servants remains, so it cannot be confirmed whether he had already received other servants. However, since there were ancestral mountain grounds in the area of Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, where the tomb of his great-grandfather Yi Baek-rok is located, it can be inferred that they were inherited in advance.