세도정치기 순원왕후의 정국 인식과 정치적 입장-김흥근 일가 수신 편지내용 분석을 중심으로-

Abstract

Queen Sunwon is a person who has an important status in the study of royal in-law family government reign in the 19th century. He is the daughter of Kim Jo-soon, who is said to be the representative figure of royal in-law family regime, and the queen of King Sunjo, the starting point of royal in-law family government reign period. In addition, he is the mother of Prince Hyomyung, the grandmother of King Heonjong, who wanted to return the arbitrary political management of the royal in-law family to the politics led by the king. In other words, Queen Sunwon can be said to be the only one that penetrates key figures in royal in-law family government reign period. Also, she is a special female figure who directly presided over the political affairs through a 10-year clean-up of convergence that combines King Heonjong and King Cheoljong reign period. She had the task of simultaneously realizing the influence of his father, Kim Jo-soon, who led the political situation from the stance of mediation, and the royal position to realize the operation of the king-centered political situation. Therefore, while relying on the brothers of Andong Kim's family, when the positions of the royal family and the family conflicted, they also showed control of the family from the perspective of the royal family. During the period of regency by the queen mother in King Cheoljong reign period, she played a political role by expressing her position as the top adult of the royal family and her family. She chose the lineage of King Jeongjo as the successor who protected by King Jeongjo and King Sunjo and helped by her father Kim Jo-soon, and she crowned King Cheoljong. And she tried to select the queen of Cheoljong from among the Soron family, not Andong Kim clan, and it inherits the position of the power balance shared by the royal family and father Kim Jo-soon. In early days of King Cheoljong, Even in the face of the Sinhae Jocheon Yesong conflict, she showed a position to avoid the extreme confrontation in the political community by protecting Kwon Don-in, who was the subject of impeachment. However, Queen Sunwon's position cannot be viewed only from a positive perspective that it embraced the opposing forces opposed to Andong Kim. The moderation in overcoming the extreme political conflicts she showed was to have clear limits during the turbulent 19th century, when he had to seek new directions and make progress. In the end, Queen Sunwon's position and attitude were not able to show a response to the changing reality beyond maintaining the status quo of the existing political situation.