Queen Mundeok

Queen Mundeok of the Chungju Yu clan (Korean: 문덕왕후 유씨; Hanja: 文德王后 劉氏) was a Goryeo princess as the youngest daughter and child of King Gwangjong and Queen Daemok, also the youngest sister of King Gyeongjong.[2]

Queen Mundeok
문덕왕후
Princess of Goryeo
Reign?–?
PredecessorLady Bohwa[1]
MonarchWang So, King Gwangjong
Queen consort of Goryeo
Tenure981–?
Coronation981
PredecessorQueen Heonae
SuccessorQueen Seonjeong
Diedbefore 997
Kingdom of Goryeo
SpouseWang Gyu, Prince Hongdeok
Seongjong of Goryeo
IssueQueen Seonjeong (with Wang Gyu)
Posthumous name
Queen Hyogong Sunseong Yeongyong Sukjeol Wonheon Seonwi Mundeok
효공순성영용숙절원헌선위문덕왕후
(孝恭順聖英容肅節元獻宣威文德王后)
House
FatherGwangjong of Goryeo
MotherQueen Daemok
ReligionBuddhism

Biography

It is unknown what year the future queen was born, but she was the youngest child of King Gwangjong and Queen Daemok. Although she was recognized as being part of the royal Wang clan, she was put under her paternal grandmother’s clan, the Chungju Yu clan.

She firstly married Wang Gyu, who was also the grandson of Lady Heondok and King Taejo, the only son of Crown Prince Sumyeong. They had a daughter together who would eventually marry King Mukjong, the son of King Gyeongjong.

But after Wang Gyu’s death, Lady Yu remarried again and became a queen consort through her marriage with her half first cousin, King Seongjong as his first and primary wife. From this marriage, Queen Mundeok became the fifth reigned Goryeo queen who followed her maternal clan after Queen Heonjeong, her half first cousin and the first Goryeo queen who remarried.

Although her death date was unknown, but seeing that her son-in-law (formerly nephew), King Mokjong gave her posthumous names in 997, it seems that she died before that.

Posthumous name
  • In April 1002 (5th year reign of King Mokjong), name Hyo-gong (효공, 孝恭) was added.
  • In March 1014 (5th year reign of King Hyeonjong), name Sun-seong (순성, 順聖) was added.
  • In April 1027 (18th year reign of King Hyeonjong), name Yeong-yong (영용, 英容) and Suk-jeol (숙절, 肅節) was added.
  • In October 1056 (10th year reign of King Munjong), name Won-heon (원헌(元獻) was added.
  • In October 1253 (40th year reign of King Gojong), name Seon-wi (선위, 宣威) was added to her Posthumous name too.

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Family

References
  1. Full 2nd older sister.
  2. "고려시대 史料 Database". Goryeosa (in Korean). Retrieved July 14, 2021.
  3. "고려시대 史料 Database". db.history.go.kr (in Chinese). Retrieved July 14, 2021.
  4. The only son of King Gyeongjong with Queen Heonae
  5. "이현경, KBS '천추태후' 문덕왕후로 합류". StyleM (in Korean). Retrieved July 25, 2021.
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