Hnin An Daung Mwei Kaw (, ; also spelled as Hnin An Daw) 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 second chief queen consort.

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Born Mwei Kaw, she was the second daughter of Minister Than-Bon of the Martaban court. She and her two sisters Mwei It and Mwei Zeik became queens of Binnya U soon after his accession.Pan Hla 2005: 45 Their youngest sister Mwei Daw became a wife of Binnya U about five years later.Pan Hla 2005: 47 Her royal title was Hnin An Daung (sometimes reported as Hnin An Daw (နှင်းအံဒေါ)Pan Hla 2005: 62). She had a daughter named

Tala Mi Thiri Tala Mi Thiri (, ; also တလမေသီရိ) was a princess of Hanthawaddy Kingdom, Martaban–Hanthawaddy Kingdom. She was the eldest daughter of King Binnya U and elder half-sister of King Razadarit. Her first marriage to King Kue Na of L ...

(also spelled Tala May Thiri), who became a queen of King Kue Na of

Lan Na The Lan Na kingdom or the Kingdom of Lanna (, , "Kingdom of a Million Rice Fields"; , , ), also known as Lannathai, was an Indianized state centered in present-day Northern Thailand from the 13th to the 18th centuries. The cultural developmen ...

(in the 1560s and the early 1570s). She may have succeeded Mwei It as chief queen after her elder sister's death in the mid-1560s.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's consort of Binnya U. However, based on the chronicle's ordering of queens and their issue (Pan Hla 2005: 47), and Mwei It's title Sanda Min Hla which was last worn by Queen Sanda Min Hla, the chief queen of three Martaban kings, Mwei It was likely the first chief queen. Hnin An Daung Mwei Kaw was listed second behind Mwei It. The chronicle does state that Binnya U's favorite queen was commoner Mwei Ma-Gu-Thauk, who was the mother of Baw Ngan-Mohn, the heir apparent.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kaw, Mwei Chief queens consort of Hanthawaddy 14th-century Burmese women