Sanda Min Hla Mwei It (, ; 1340s– 1365) was a principal queen consort of King

Binnya U Binnya U (, , ; also known as Hsinbyushin; 1323–1384) was king of Martaban–Hanthawaddy from 1348 to 1384. His reign was marked by several internal rebellions and external conflicts. He survived the initial rebellions and an invasion by Lan ...

of Martaban–Hanthawaddy. She may have been Binnya U's first chief queen consort.

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Born Mwei It, the future queen was the eldest daughter of Minister Than-Bon of the Martaban court. She and her two younger sisters

Mwei Kaw Hnin An Daung Mwei Kaw (, ; also spelled as Hnin An Daw) was a principal queen consort of King Binnya U of Martaban–Hanthawaddy. She may have been Binnya U's second chief queen consort. Brief Born Mwei Kaw, she was the second daughter of Min ...

and

Mwei Zeik Sanda Dewi Mwei Zeik ( ;) was a principal queen consort of King Binnya U of Martaban–Hanthawaddy. Born Mwei Zeik, she was the third daughter of Minister Than-Bon of the Martaban court. She and her elder two sisters Mwei It and Mwei Kaw beca ...

became queens of Binnya U soon after his accession.Pan Hla 2005: 45 Their youngest sister

Mwei Daw Thiri Maya Dewi Mwei Daw (, ; 1330s – 28 January 1368) was a principal queen of King Binnya U of Martaban–Hanthawaddy, and the mother of King Razadarit. Brief Mwei Daw was the youngest daughter of Than-Bon, a senior minister at the court ...

later became a wife of Binnya U about five years later.Pan Hla 2005: 47 She may have been the king's first chief queen consort.The ''

Razadarit Ayedawbon ''Razadarit Ayedawbon'' () is a Burmese chronicle covering the history of Ramanya from 1287 to 1421. The chronicle consists of accounts of court intrigues, rebellions, diplomatic missions, wars etc. About half of the chronicle is devoted to the ...

'' chronicle does not explicitly state the chief queen consort of Binnya U. However, based on the chronicle's ordering of queens and their issue (Pan Hla 2005: 47), and her title Sanda Min Hla which was last worn by Queen

Sanda Min Hla Sanda Min Hla (, ; 1300s–1363/64) was the chief queen consort of three kings of Martaban, and the real palace power behind the throne. Her murder of her second husband King Saw E, grandson of the king of Sukhothai provoked an invasion from Su ...

, the chief queen of three Martaban kings, she was likely the first chief queen. The queen did not have any issue. She raised her nephew Ma Nyi Kan-Kaung (son of Mwei Daw and Min Linka) as her own son. She died in

Donwun Donwun (, ; also spelled Don Wun; also known as Wun), located 16km north of Thaton Thaton (; ) is a town in Mon State, in southern Myanmar on the Tenasserim plains. Thaton lies along the National Highway 8 and is also connected by the Nation ...

in the mid 1360s a few years after Binnya U had been driven out of Martaban by the rebel forces led by

Byattaba Byattaba (; ; also Byat-Hta-Ba) was the ruler of the Mon State, Martaban province of the Hanthawaddy Kingdom, Martaban–Hanthawaddy Kingdom from 1364 to 1388. He came to power by staging a coup against King Binnya U with the help of his brothers ...

. Her request to Binnya U on her death bed was not to harm Nyi Kan-Kaung; she died soon after the king agreed to her wish.Pan Hla 2005: 57 The king kept his promise. In the early 1370s, the king appointed Nyi Kan-Kaung, who was also his nephew, governor of Dala–Twante.Pan Hla 2005: 60

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