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Gimhae
Hur clan (Korean: 김해 허씨; Hanja: 金海 許氏) is one of
the Korean clans. This clan traces their origin to King Suro and his Queen
Hur Hwang-ok, who are mentioned in the 13th-century Korean chronicle Samguk
Yusa. King Suro was the founder of Gaya confederacy, and his descendant Gim
Yu-sin is renowned for unifying the Silla polity.
Gimhae Hur clan trace their lineage to the legendary queen as the direct
descendants of Queen Hur Hwang-ok's children with King Kim Suro.
After married Queen
Hur and King Suro had 12 children,
she requested Suro to let two of the children bear her maiden surname.
Legendary genealogical records trace the origins of the Gimhae Hur to these
two children.
The Gimhae Hur clan descended from the two sons of King Suro who used their
mother's Queen Hur Hwang-ok's surname, instead of their father's.
According to Samguk Yusa Queen Hur Hwang-ok became the wife of King Suro of
Geumgwan Gaya at the age of 16, after having arrived in Gaya confederacy in
Korea in the year 48 AD by boat from a distant kingdom called "Ayuta",
making her the first queen of Geumgwan Gaya.
Her native kingdom is believed to be located in India by some, there is however no mention of her in any pre-modern Indian sources. There is a tomb in Gimhae in Korea, that are believed by some to be of King Suro and Queen Hur, and a memorial of Queen Hur Hwang-ok in Hindu holy city of Ayodhya in India.
Origin
The Gimhae Hur clan founder was King Suro, whose wife was Queen Hur Hwang-ok. She set sail from India, later arriving at Gimhae. Sources have identified Ayodhya in India as the native place of Queen Hur Hwang-ok.
In 2004, scientific proof
demonstrated that Hur Hwang-ok was a person of Indian origin. Two professors
from the Faculty of Medicine at Seoul University and the Faculty of Medicine
at Hallym University, reported their finding to The Genetics Society of
Korea.
Having analyzed remains in an old burial mound containing what they assumed
are remains of Hur Hwang-ok, they concluded that her ancestors were not from
Northern Mongolia (origination of Koreans), but from India. These findings
were based on analyses of sampled Mitochondrial DNA.
Queen Hur Hwang-ok's association with Ayodhya is based on the book "Hur
Hwang-ok Route: From India to Gaya of Korea" by a senior Archeologist and
Emeritus Professor at Hanyang University, Kim Byung-mo, which is considered
speculative by some.
The Memorial of Hur Hwang-ok in Ayodhya, is visited by a large number of
Koreans, especially in April, to pay tribute to Queen Hur as she is
considered an ancestor to over 6 million Koreans.
She was supposedly of Indian-origin from Ayodhya and had traveled to Korea
to marry King Suro of Geumgwan Gaya in 48 CE.