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Bayinnaung , title = King of Toungoo , image = Bayinnaung.JPG , caption = Statue of Bayinnaung in front of the National Museum of Myanmar , reign = 30 April 1550 – 10 October 1581 , coronation = 11 January 1551 at Taungoo, ...

of the

Toungoo Dynasty ''taungnguumainn saat'' , conventional_long_name = Toungoo dynasty , common_name = Taungoo dynasty , status = Empire/Monarchy, Kingdom , event_start = Independence from Kingdom of Ava, Ava Kingdom , yea ...

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. The king had over 50 wives and nearly 100 children. All the Toungoo monarchs after him were descended from him.Htin Aung 1967: 339

Ancestry

His ancestry is unclear. The chronicles claim that he was of royal ancestry (from all the previous main Upper Burma dynasties) while oral traditions say he was of commoner origins.Thaw Kaung 2010: 102–105

Queens consort

Principal queens

Bayinnaung had three

queens consort A queen consort is the wife of a reigning king, and usually shares her spouse's social Imperial, royal and noble ranks, rank and status. She holds the feminine equivalent of the king's monarchical titles and may be crowned and anointed, but hi ...

. After the death of his first chief queen Atula Thiri in 1568,

Sanda Dewi Sanda Dewi ( ; ) was one of the three principal queens of King Bayinnaung of Burma from 1553 to 1581. She was also a queen of the last two kings of Prome Kingdom from 1532 to 1542. She was the maternal grandmother of Natshinnaung, king of Toungoo ...

became the chief and only queen for the remainder of his reign (1568–81).

Junior queens

The following is a list of junior queens who bore him at least one child per the ''Hmannan Yazawin'' chronicle (Hmannan Vol. 3 2003: 68–73). Several of the queens came over through marriages of state.Lieberman 2003: 155 Below are other junior wives who appeared elsewhere in the chronicles. They have to account for the king's children (Wara Dhamma, Kaweya Hla Nyi, Thukhawaddy, Min A-Kyi, Thugandawaddy, Myat Myo Hpone Wai and Myo Myat Hpone Si) whose mothers' names are unknown.

Issue

By senior queens

The king had three daughters and three sons by his senior queens.Maha Yazawin Vol. 3 2006: 77Hmannan Vol. 3 2003: 73

By junior queens

The following is a list of his children by junior queens. The list is ordered by the mother of the children, and then by the age of the children per the ''

Hmannan Yazawin ''Hmannan Maha Yazawindawgyi'' (, ; commonly, ''Hmannan Yazawin''; known in English as the ''Glass Palace Chronicle'') is the first Burmese chronicle, official chronicle of Konbaung Dynasty of Burma (Myanmar). It was compiled by the Royal Histori ...

'' chronicle.Hmannan Vol. 3 2003: 68–73 Note that although both ''

Maha Yazawin The ''Maha Yazawin'', fully the ''Maha Yazawindawgyi'' (, , Pali : Mahārājavaṃsa) and formerly romanized as the ,. is the first national chronicle of Burma/Myanmar. Completed in 1724 by U Kala, a historian at the Toungoo court, it was the ...

'' and ''Hmannan'' chronicles say that he had 35 sons and 56 daughters by junior queens and concubines, the detailed list, which appears only in ''Hmannan'' (Hmannan Vol. 3 2003: 68–73), enumerates only 86 children (32 sons, 54 daughters). The rest of the children are mentioned in the various parts of the chronicles. The grand total comes to at least 92 different names which consisted of 33 sons and 59 daughters. The discrepancy may be due to recording errors in the sex and/or number of the unnamed children who died young. The following are the children (1 son, 5 daughters) whose names are not listed in ''Hmannan's'' detailed list but appear in other parts of in both ''Maha Yazawin'' and ''Hmannan''.

Siblings

Full siblings

He had four full siblings.Sein Lwin Lay 2006: 247–248

Half siblings

He had two half-siblings, who were born to his father and his maternal aunt.

Notable relations

Nephews and nieces

Grandchildren and beyond

In-laws

Modern descendants

A 17th generation descendant of his still holds hereditary office in

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(modern-day

Bandarban District Bandarban District (), officially Bandarban Hill District, is a district in South-Eastern Bangladesh, and a part of the Chittagong Division. It is one of the three hill districts of Bangladesh and a part of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, the others ...

) in the

Chittagong Hill Tracts The Chittagong Hill Tracts (), often shortened to simply the Hill Tracts and abbreviated to CHT, refers to the three hilly districts within the Chittagong Division in southeastern Bangladesh, bordering India and Myanmar (Burma) in the east: Kh ...

region of

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References

Bibliography

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