Queen Anhye

Queen Anhye
Queen Consort of Goryeo
Reign	1218–1232
Predecessor	Queen Wondeok
Successor	Queen Jeongsun
Died	1232
Spouse	Gojong of Goryeo
Issue	King Wonjong of Goryeo Wang Chang, Lord Angyeong Princess Suheung
Posthumous name 안혜왕태후 安惠王太后
Father	Huijong of Goryeo
Mother	Queen Seongpyeong

Queen Anhye of the Yu clan (?–1232) (안혜왕후 유씨) was a Queen Consort of Goryeo. She was the spouse of king Gojong of Goryeo.

She was daughter of Huijong of Goryeo, and the cousin of her spouse.

Life

The future Queen Anhye was born to King Huijong and Queen Seongpyeong as their first daughter. Her husband, Gojong, is her sixth cousin, and is a rare close marriage in the late Goryeo Dynasty. She changed her surname from Wang to Yu when she became queen consort of Gojong, but it is not known what the change was based on. However, Queen Wondeok, the mother-in-law of Queen Ahnhye and her fifth-degree aunt, had also changed her original surname from Wang to Yu. Queen Wondeok was also the daughter of Princess Changrak.

In 1211, in the 7th reign of King Huijong, she became known as Princess Seungbok (승복궁주, 承福宮主) when she married Gojong, and became Queen Consort when her husband ascended the throne as king in 1218.

She later died in 1232 in the 19th year of her husband’s reign which brought the king to wear mourning clothes for three days and grieve over her death. He later gave her the posthumous title of Queen Anhye (안혜, 安惠)

When her eldest son, Wonjong, became crowned in 1260 (in July of the lunar calendar), she was given another posthumous title “Empress Anhye of the Yu clan” (Hangul: 안혜태후 유씨, Hanja: 安惠太后 柳氏).

After her death, Gojong did not remarry.

She had two sons and one daughter with Gojong.

Family

• Father
  • King Huijong of Goryeo (고려 희종) (21 June 1181 – 31 August 1237)
    • Grandfather - King Shinjong of Goryeo (고려 신종) (11 August 1144 – 15 February 1204)
    • Grandmother - Queen Shinjeong of the Kim clan (선정왕후 김씨) (?–1222)
• Mother
  • Queen Seungpyeong of the Jangheung Im clan (성평왕후 임씨) (?–1247)
    • Grandfather - Wang Jin, Lord Yeongin (영인후 왕진, 寧仁侯 王稹) (?–1220)
    • Grandmother - Princess Yeonhui (연희궁주)
• Husband
  • King Gojong of Goryeo (고려 고종) (3 February 1192 – 21 July 1259)
    • Father-in-law - King Kangjong of Goryeo (고려 강종) (10 May 1152 – 26 August 1213)
    • Mother-in-law - Queen Wondeok of the Yu clan (원덕태후 유씨) (?–1239)

Issue

1. King Wonjong of Goryeo (5 April 1219 – 23 July 1274) (고려 원종)
2. King Yeongjong of Goryeo (August 1223 – ?) (고려 영종)
3. Princess Sunheung (수흥궁주)

References

• 고종 (in Korean). Doosan Encyclopedia.