Dowager Queen Sunan of the Gaeseong Wang clan (; ) was a

Goryeo Goryeo (; ) was a Korean kingdom founded in 918, during a time of national division called the Later Three Kingdoms period, that unified and ruled the Korean Peninsula until 1392. Goryeo achieved what has been called a "true national unificati ...

Royal Princess as the only daughter of King Taejo and

Lady Jeongmok Lady Jeongmok of the Gangneung Wang clan () was the daughter of Wang-Gyeong who became the 8th wife of Taejo of Goryeo and mother of Dowager Queen Sunan. Later, in 922, General Wang Sun-sik from Myeongju (명주장군 왕순식) was inside fighti ...

. "Sunan" means the name of

Yeongju City Yeongju () is a city in the far north region of North Gyeongsang province in South Korea, covering 668.84 km2 with a population of 113,930 people according to the 2008 census. The city borders Bonghwa county to the east, Danyang County, Danyang co ...

in nowadays. The reason why she posthumously honoured as ''Dowager Queen'' (왕대비, 王大妃; ''"Wangdaebi"'') was unknown since it was not recorded in ''

Goryeosa The ''Goryeosa'' (), or ''History of Goryeo'', is the main surviving historical record of Korea's Goryeo dynasty. It was composed nearly a century after the fall of Goryeo, during the reign of King Sejong, undergoing repeated revisions between ...

''.

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