, image = , caption = , reign = 30 August 1551 – November/December 1588 , coronation = , succession = Chief vicereine of Prome , predecessor = ''unknown'' , successor = , suc-type = Successor , reg-type = , regent = , spouse = Min Ba Saw
Narapati IV of Ava
Thado Dhamma Yaza II of Prome , issue =

Hsinbyushin Medaw , image = , caption = , reign = 28 January 1579 – 1601/02 , coronation = 2 July 1579 , succession = Chief queen consort of Lan Na , predecessor = , successor ...

Maha Yazawin Vol. 3 2006: 89

Min Taya Medaw , image = , caption = , reign = 10 October 1581 – , coronation = , succession = Queen of the Western Palace , predecessor = Maha Dewi , successor = ''va ...

, issue-link = , full name = , house =

Prome Pyay (, ; mnw, ပြန် , ; also known as Prome and Pyè) is principal town of Pyay Township in the Bago Region in Myanmar. Pyay is located on the bank of the Irrawaddy River, north-west of Yangon. It is an important trade center for the Aye ...

, father =

Bayin Htwe Bayin Htwe ( my, ဘုရင်ထွေး, ; 1470s–1533) was king of Prome (Pyay) from 1527 to 1532. His small kingdom, founded by his father Thado Minsaw in 1482, was conquered by the Confederation of Shan States in 1532, and he was taken ...

, mother =

Shwe Zin Gon , image = , caption = , reign = February 1527 – late 1532 , coronation = , succession = Chief queen consort of Prome , predecessor = Saw Myat Lay , successor ...

, birth_date = 1520s , birth_place =

(Pyay) , death_date = , death_place =

(Pyay) , date of burial = , place of burial = , religion =

Theravada Buddhism ''Theravāda'' () ( si, ථේරවාදය, my, ထေရဝါဒ, th, เถรวาท, km, ថេរវាទ, lo, ເຖຣະວາດ, pi, , ) is the most commonly accepted name of Buddhism's oldest existing school. The school' ...

, signature = Salin Mibaya ( my, စလင်း မိဖုရား, ; also known as Narapati Medaw, (နရပတိ မယ်တော်Ni Ni Myint 2004: 16)) was the chief queen of Viceroy Thado Dhamma Yaza II of Prome (r. 1551–1588). The second daughter of King

and his chief queen

Shwe Zin Gon , image = , caption = , reign = February 1527 – late 1532 , coronation = , succession = Chief queen consort of Prome , predecessor = Saw Myat Lay , successor ...

was married three times. Her marriage to her first cousin Min Ba Saw—a son of her maternal uncle—was cut short when her brother King Narapati had him executed. Narapati then married her off to

Sithu Kyawhtin Sithu Kyawhtin ( my, စည်သူကျော်ထင်, ; also known as Narapati Sithu (နရပတိ စည်သူ, )) was the last king of Ava from 1551 to 1555. He came to power by overthrowing King Narapati III in 1551, the culmi ...

, then governor of Salin, a powerful figure in the

Confederation of Shan States The Shan States (1885–1948) were a collection of minor Shan kingdoms called ''muang'' whose rulers bore the title ''saopha'' in British Burma. They were analogous to the princely states of British India. The term "Shan States" was firs ...

, in a

marriage of state A marriage of state is a diplomatic marriage or union between two members of different nation-states or internally, between two power blocs, usually in authoritarian societies and is a practice which dates back into ancient times, as far back as ear ...

in the late 1530s. (Prome was then a de facto vassal state of the Confederation, which controlled all of Ava territories except Toungoo in Upper Burma.) Her stay at Salin lasted until January 1544 when the city was captured by Toungoo forces under Gen.

Bayinnaung , image = File: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 Toun ...

. Her husband escaped to Ava (Inwa) but she was captured and sent to

Pegu Bago (formerly spelt Pegu; , ), formerly known as Hanthawaddy, is a city and the capital of the Bago Region in Myanmar. It is located north-east of Yangon. Etymology The Burmese name Bago (ပဲခူး) is likely derived from the Mon langu ...

(Bago).Maha Yazawin Vol. 2 2006: 168 In 1545, she was married to Nanda Yawda, a younger brother of Bayinnaung, at the coronation ceremony of Tabinshwehti at the Pegu Palace.Maha Yazawin Vol. 2 2006: 172 She returned to her native Prome as queen in 1551 when her husband was appointed viceroy of the region by King Bayinnaung. She had two daughters by Nanda Yawda, now styled as Thado Dhamma Yaza II. Their elder daughter

Hsinbyushin Medaw , image = , caption = , reign = 28 January 1579 – 1601/02 , coronation = 2 July 1579 , succession = Chief queen consort of Lan Na , predecessor = , successor ...

became the chief queen of

Nawrahta Minsaw Nawrahta Minsaw ( my, နော်ရထာ မင်းစော, ; formally, Anawrahta Minsaw; also known as Nawrahta Saw and Tharrawaddy Min; 1551/52–1607/08) was king of Lan Na from 1579 to 1607/08, and the first Burmese-born vassal king o ...

, the viceroy (and later king) of Lan Na. The younger daughter

Min Taya Medaw , image = , caption = , reign = 10 October 1581 – , coronation = , succession = Queen of the Western Palace , predecessor = Maha Dewi , successor = ''va ...

was a major queen of Nanda.Maha Yazawin Vol. 3 2006: 37, 103

Ancestry

The following is her ancestry as reported in the ''

Hmannan Yazawin ''Hmannan Maha Yazawindawgyi'' ( my, မှန်နန်း မဟာ ရာဇဝင်တော်ကြီး, ; commonly, ''Hmannan Yazawin''; known in English as the '' Glass Palace Chronicle'') is the first official chronicle of Konbaun ...

'' chronicle, which in turn referenced contemporary inscriptions.See (Hmannan Vol. 3 2003: 88) for the names of her maternal grandparents. See (Hmannan Vol. 2 2003: 82–84) for further ancestors. Her parents were double cousins.

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* * {{s-end Ava dynasty Prome dynasty Chief queens consort of Toungoo dynasty 16th-century Burmese women