Queen Inwon


Queen Inwon also known as Queen Dowager Hyesun was a Korean queen consort, married to King Sukjong of Joseon.

Biography

Born in 1687, on the twenty-ninth day of the ninth month in the thirteenth year of the reign of King Sukjong, the future Queen Inwon was the second daughter of Kim Joo-shin and Lady Jo of the Imcheon Jo clan,. She had two brothers, Kim Huyeon and Kim Guyeon, one older sister who married Mayor Lee Deoklin, and one younger sister who married Yun Myeon-gyo.
She married King Sukjong in 1702 as his third queen consort, following the death of Queen Inhyeon and the execution of Jang hui-bin in 1701. She came down with smallpox in 1711, but survived.
Following King Sukjong's death in 1720, she became Queen Dowager. Following the death of her stepson, King Gyeongjong, and the accession of her other stepson, King Yeongjo, in 1724, she became Grand Queen Dowager.
She died on the twenty-sixth day of the third month in the thirty-third year of the reign of King Yeongjo at Changdeok Palace, aged 69. She was buried in Myeongreung, Gyeonggi Province, near the tombs of King Sukjong and his second Queen Consort, Queen Inhyeon.

Full posthumous name

She was given the posthumous title