Queen Daemok 대목왕후 | |
Succession: | Princess of Goryeo |
Predecessor: | Princess Heungbang |
Successor: | Queen Munhye |
Regent: | Wang Geon, King Taejo |
Reg-Type: | Monarch |
Succession1: | Queen consort of Goryeo |
Reign1: | ?–? |
Reign-Type1: | Tenure |
Predecessor1: | Queen Munseong |
Successor1: | Queen Heonsuk |
Father: | Taejo of Goryeo |
Mother: | Queen Sinjeong of the Hwangju Hwangbo clan |
Spouse: | Gwangjong of Goryeo |
Issue: | Gyeongjong of Goryeo[1] Prince Hyohwa Lady Cheonchu Lady Bohwa Queen Mundeok |
Birth Date: | 925 |
Birth Place: | Hwangju County, North Hwanghae Province, |
Death Place: | Kaeseong, Kaesong Industrial Region |
Regnal Name: | Taemok (태목, 太穆; "Highest and Majestic")[2] |
Posthumous Name: | Queen Anjeong Seonmyeong Uijeong Singyeong Gongpyeong Jeongye Daemok 안정선명의정신경공평정예대목왕후 (安靜宣明懿正信敬恭平靜睿大穆王后) |
Queen Daemok of the Hwangju Hwangbo clan (; 925–?), also known as Queen Taemok, was a Goryeo princess as the only daughter of King Taejo and Queen Sinjeong, also the younger sister of King Daejong[3] who became a queen consort through her marriage with her half older brother, King Gwangjong. She was also the mother of most his children and the first Goryeo queen to use her maternal surname, Hwangbo.
She was born in 925, while her marriage is believed to have taken place between 937 and 943. In 956, when Gwangjong proclaimed the law of slaves' emancipation, she strongly opposed it and begged him earnestly, but Gwangjong ignored and rejected her pleas.[4] Daemok's opposition to the law stemmed from the Hwangbo clan, whose interests she was trying to protect; however, in Gwangjong's eyes, her maternal family was only one of the noble families to be removed.
Her death is presumed to have occurred after 975 but before 1002, when King Mokjong (her only grandson) gave her a posthumous name. She was enshrined in Heolleung tomb along with her husband.
Queen Daemok is often portrayed as an antagonist when the stories are based on Gwangjong's reign period.