大元帝國 시기 황실 통혼과 여성의 정치적 역할 ― 콩기라트 부족의 활동을 중심으로 ―

초록

The marriage alliance formed with the duces submitted to the Mongolian Empire with exogamy as a principle has an aspect of effectively acting on the unification of the empire. Meanwhile, since the Qubilai time, the Alchi family of the Qonggirat Protectorate monopolized almost all royal matrimony, beating out all other tribes. The intermarriage between the Qubilai family and the Alchi family, starting from the marriage by the exchange of sisters became close as relatives doubly related by marriage through cross-cousin marriage in the next generations. On the surface, it was the intermarriage between the two families; but in fact, even the Qubilai descendants got married to each other. Eight out of ten Tumetu-iin Noyan (萬戶長) of the Qonggirat Protectorate married the Qubilai descendants, three of them were the Qubilai descendants, and the daughters of Tumetu-iin Noyan got married to the Mongolian Imperial Family. In this way, eight out of ten Great Khans of the Great Yuan Empire took women from the Qonggirat Protectorate as empresses, and the women’s five children ascended the Great Khan’s throne. Since the royal matrimony can be said to be a kind of political act, the acquisition of an unrivaled position of the Qonggirat Protectorate has an inseparable relationship with the shift of the political structure and power of the Empire. As Dadu leaning to the east became the center of the reign of the Empire, the geopolitical specificity of the Qonggirat Protectorate that is the front line to defend Dadu and Shangdu and is located in an important traffic center connecting Mongolia with Dadu. Especially, to suppress the continued revolts of the royal families in the east and west and keep the Empire stable, the cooperation of Tumetu-iin Noyan of the Qonggirat Protectorate was essential. Thus, the Great Khans took them as the co-authority of the Empire, making them the Qubilai descendants through the close intermarriage with the Alchi family, and the Alchi family were with the Empire’s prosperity as the core forces of the Empire.

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