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Chief queen consort of Toungoo State
Atula Agga Maha Dewi
Min Khin Saw
အတုလအဂ္ဂ မဟာဒေဝီ မင်းခင်စော
Chief queen consort of Toungoo State
Tenurec. February 1597 – 11 August 1609
Coronation21 March [O.S. 11 March] 1603
Predecessornew office
Successorvacant
Chief vicereine of Toungoo
TenureJune 1584 – c. February 1597
PredecessorLaygyun Mibaya
Successordisestablished
Bornc. 1555
Pegu (Bago)
Toungoo Empire
Diedafter August 1612
Pinya
Restored Toungoo Kingdom
SpouseMinye Thihathu II
IssueNatshinnaung
Minye Kyawswa of Toungoo
Minye Thihathu III of Toungoo
Minye Kyawhtin II of Toungoo
HouseToungoo
FatherBayinnaung
MotherSanda Dewi
ReligionTheravada Buddhism
This article contains Burmese script. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Burmese script. In this Burmese name, Min is an honorific, not a given name.

Min Khin Saw (Burmese: မင်းခင်စော, pronounced [mɪ́ɴ kʰɪ̀ɴ sɔ́]) was the chief queen consort of the break-away kingdom of Toungoo (Taungoo) from 1597 to 1609. She was also the chief queen of Toungoo from 1584 to 1597 when Toungoo was a vassal state of Toungoo Empire. From 1612 onwards, the mother of Natshinnaung spent her last years as a dowager queen in Pinya (near Ava (Inwa).

Brief

Min Khin Saw was the only child born from the union of Queen Sanda Dewi and King Bayinnaung. She descended from the Ava royal line from her mother's side. She married her half-cousin Minye Kyawhtin, governor of Tharrawaddy (Thayawadi), on 1 May 1571.

The couple had four children:

  • Natshinnaung, King of Toungoo (1609–1610); Viceroy of Toungoo (1610–1612)
  • Minye Kyawswa of Toungoo, Crown Prince of Toungoo (1609–1612)
  • Minye Thihathu III of Toungoo, Governor of Badon (1612–?)
  • Minye Kyawhtin II of Toungoo, Governor of Taungdwingyi (1612–?)

Min Khin Saw became a dowager queen in 1609 when her husband died. She fled Toungoo in August 1612 when the combined forces of Portuguese Syriam (Thanlyin) and Martaban (Mottama) attacked Toungoo. King Anaukpetlun gave her a two-story house in Pinya (near Ava) with a retinue of servants.

Ancestry

Ancestry of Queen Min Khin Saw
8. Taungkha Min
4. Minye Thihathu I of Toungoo
9. Kayenawaddy
2. Bayinnaung
10. Kywe Sit Min
5. Shin Myo Myat
11. (Unnamed)
1. Min Khin Saw
12. Minkhaung II of Ava
6. Narapati II of Ava
13. Atula Thiri Dhamma Dewi of Ava
3. Sanda Dewi
14. Thihapate of Pakhan
7. Dhamma Dewi of Pakhan
15. (Unnamed)

Notes

  1. (Maha Yazawin Vol. 3 2006: 148): Natshinnaung did not have a queen after the death of Yaza Datu Kalaya. He did not raise any of his concubines to queen. And since Natshinnaung was the last sovereign king of Toungoo, the office of Chief Queen of Toungoo ended with Min Khin Saw.
  2. Sanda Dewi became Bayinnaung's queen only in April 1553. Since she got married in 1570, she was likely born in the mid 1550s.
  3. (Maha Yazawin Vol. 3 2006: 144): Wagaung 974 ME = 28 July to 25 August 1612

References

  1. ^ Maha Yazawin Vol. 3 2006: 108
  2. ^ Maha Yazawin Vol. 3 2006: 144
  3. (Maha Yazawin Vol. 2 2006: 336): Saturday, 7th waxing of Nayon 933 ME = Tuesday, 1 May 1570
  4. ^ Maha Yazawin Vol. 3 2006: 145

Bibliography

  • Kala, U (1724). Maha Yazawin (in Burmese). Vol. 1–3 (2006, 4th printing ed.). Yangon: Ya-Pyei Publishing.
Min Khin Saw Toungoo DynastyBorn: c. 1555 Died: 1610s?
Royal titles
New title Chief queen consort of Toungoo State
c. February 1597 – 11 August 1609 		Vacant
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