Princess Noguk
| Princess Supreme of Noh State 魯國大長公主[a] | |||||||||||||
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| File:서울 마포 고려 공민왕 내외 영정.jpg Portrait of Princess Noguk and her husband, King Gongmin | |||||||||||||
| Queen consort of Goryeo | |||||||||||||
| Tenure | 1351–1365 | ||||||||||||
| Coronation | 1351 | ||||||||||||
| Predecessor | Queen Consort Yun | ||||||||||||
| Successor | Queen Consort Yi | ||||||||||||
| Born | Borjigin Budashiri Yuan dynasty | ||||||||||||
| Died | 8 March 1365 Goryeo | ||||||||||||
| Burial | Jeongneung Tomb, Haeseon-ri, Gaepung-gun, North Hwanghae Province | ||||||||||||
| Spouse | |||||||||||||
| Issue | Unnamed son (died after birth) | ||||||||||||
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| House | Borjigin (by birth) House of Wang (by marriage) | ||||||||||||
| Father | Bayir Temür | ||||||||||||
| Religion | Buddhism | ||||||||||||
| Princess Noguk | |
| Hangul | 노국대장공주 |
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| Hanja | 魯國大長公主 |
| RR | Noguk daejang gongju |
| MR | Noguk taejang kongju |
Princess Supreme Noguk (Korean: 노국대장공주; Hanja: 魯國大長公主; lit. Princess-Aunt of the State of No; d. 8 March 1365[b]), also known as Queen Indeok (인덕왕후; 仁德王后) and Queen Mother Indeok (인덕태후; 仁德太后) during her stepson, King U of Goryeo's reign. She was a Yuan dynasty imperial family member as the great-granddaughter of Darmabala, and a niece of Princess Joguk who became a Korean queen consort though her marriage with Gongmin of Goryeo as his primary wife. Her personal name was Borjigin Budashiri (Mongolian: Будшир; Middle Mongolian: ᠪᠤᠳᠢᠰᠢᠷᠢ; Chinese: 寶塔實里 or 寶塔失里). She was the last Mongol to become queen consort of Goryeo.
Biography
[edit | edit source]The future Princess Noguk was born Budashiri, a member of the Yuan dynasty's ruling Borjigin clan and a great-great-great-granddaughter of Kublai Khan. Though her birth year is unknown, she is recorded as having married the reformist monarch Gongmin of Goryeo in the Yuan capital of Khanbaliq in 1349, after which she went to live in Goryeo.
Noguk's marriage followed a practice established by Kublai Khan, where female members of the Yuan imperial clan were married to Goryeo princes in order to maintain Yuan hegemony on the Korean peninsula.[1] By contrast with earlier marriages between the Yuan and Goryeo dynasties, however, Budashiri's marriage to Gongmin was described as happy[1] and after her arrival in Goryeo, the Yuan gave Budashiri title as Princess Seungui (Korean: 승의공주; Hanja: Lua error: not enough memory.Lua error: not enough memory.).
When King Gongmin restored Goryeo's independence, the Princess rejected her homeland, and by helping her husband she monopolized his love to her. Despite their close relationship, they were childless. Budashiri then became pregnant fifteen years after marriage, but died in 1365 from complications related to the childbirth.[2]
After her death, King Gongmin was said to have been deeply saddened and became indifferent to politics with entrusted great tasks to a Buddhist monk, Pyeonjo, who was executed in 1371. King Gongmin was killed in his sleep by Hong Ryun (Lua error: not enough memory.Lua error: not enough memory.), Choe Man-saeng (Lua error: not enough memory.Lua error: not enough memory.), and others in 1374.
Legacy
[edit | edit source]King Gongmin began the construction of a tomb near Kaeseong after the queen's death. The queen was interred under the mound Jeongreung, and her husband was later buried under an accompanying mound known as Hyeonreung.[3]
In 1367, she posthumously received the title "princess supreme" (Lua error: not enough memory., Lua error: not enough memory.) – typically accorded to aunts of emperors (even though she was not).[4][c]
According to the Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty, the tenth king Yeonsan believed that Princess Noguk had looked similar to his mother, the deposed Queen Yun, so he collected the princess' portraits at government offices.[5]
In popular culture
[edit | edit source]Television series
[edit | edit source]- Portrayed by Sunwoo Eun-sook in the 1983 KBS TV series Foundation of the Kingdom.
- Portrayed by Seo Ji-hye in the 2005–2006 MBC TV series Shin Don.
- Portrayed by Park Se-young in the 2012 SBS TV series Faith.
- Portrayed by Bae Min-hee in the 2012–2013 SBS TV series The Great Seer.
Film
[edit | edit source]- Portrayed by Choi Eun-hee in the 1967 film A Tender Heart.
Novel
[edit | edit source]- Portrayed in the 1942 novel A Tender Heart (다정불심; a.k.a. "Tender Heartedness") by Park Jong-hwa.
See also
[edit | edit source]Notes
[edit | edit source]- ^ Modern Hangul: 노국대장공주
- ^ In the Korean calendar (lunisolar), she died on 15 February 1365.
- ^ Her father's only known brother, Alu (Lua error: not enough memory.), did not father any emperors, so she was not aunt to an emperor. There was precedence, however, to the title of "princess supreme" being bestowed to women who were not an emperor's aunt, for instance, Sengge Ragi, an emperor's sister.
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References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Art under control in North Korea - Tomb of King Kongmin
- 노국대장공주 on the Encyclopedia of Korean Culture Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1..
- 인덕태후 on Doosan Encyclopedia Lua error: Internal error: The interpreter exited with status 1..
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