Background
Queen Jeonghui was born on the eleventh day of the eleventh lunar month in the eighteenth year of King Taejong"s reign. Her father Yun Beon (Hangul: 윤번, Hanja: 尹璠) (1384–1448) would later become Prime Minister.
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Queen Jeonghui was born on the eleventh day of the eleventh lunar month in the eighteenth year of King Taejong"s reign. Her father Yun Beon (Hangul: 윤번, Hanja: 尹璠) (1384–1448) would later become Prime Minister.
She was from the Papyeung Yun clan. Her mother was Yun Beon"s wife Lady Lee (Hangul: 이씨, Hanja: 李氏). She became Queen Consort upon her husband"s accession to the throne in 1455.
According to records of this era, political decisions were taken by the Queen and three subjects nominated by King Sejo.
As Seongjong was only 13 at the time of his accession, Queen Jeonghui ruled the nation in Seongjong"s name along with her daughter-in-law, Seongjong"s, Queen Insu (whose husband had never actually been king). During her regency, common farmers were granted the right to cultivate fields that had originally belonged to the military.
In 1474, the code of law, first ordered by King Sejo, was completed and put into effect. Queen Jeonghui"s regency ended in 1477, when King Seongjong, now 20 years old, assumed the reins of government himself.
She died in 1483, on the thirtieth day of the third month in the fourteenth year of King Seongjong"s reign.
King Sejo and Queen Jeonghui had three, or possibly four, children:
Yi Jang, Crown Prince Uigyeong (이장 의경세자 (1438 – 2 September 1457), titled as Prince Dowon (도원군) until his father"s accession
Princess Uisook (의숙공주) (1442–1477), married 11 June 1455 Jeong Hyeon-jo (정현조), son of Chief State Chancellor Jeong In-ji)
Yi Hwang, Grand Prince Haeyang (이황 해양대군) (1450–1469), later King Yejong of Joseon
Possible daughter, known through various names such as Yi Se-hui (이세희), Yi Se-jeong (이세정), Princess Uiryeong (의령공주), and Princess Uihwa (의화공주).