Shin Myo Myat (, ; c. 1490s – c. 1520s) was the mother of King
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
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 ...
of
Burma
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and ha ...
(Myanmar), and the
wet nurse
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of King
Tabinshwehti
Tabinshwehti (, ; 16 April 1516 – 30 April 1550) was King of Burma from 1530 to 1550, and the founder of the First Toungoo Empire. His military campaigns (1534–1549) created the largest kingdom in Burma since the fall of the Pagan Empire ...
.
[Harvey 1925: 153] In 1516, she and her husband
Mingyi Swe were hired to the household staff responsible for the royal infant Tabinshwehti. Although the
Royal Chronicles proclaim her as a fifth generation descendant of King
Thihathu
Thihathu (, ; 1265–1325) was a co-founder of the Myinsaing Kingdom, and the founder of the Pinya Kingdom in today's central Burma (Myanmar).Coedès 1968: 209 Thihathu was the youngest and most ambitious of the three brothers that successful ...
of
Pinya
Pinya (), or Vijayapura, was the capital of the Kingdom of Pinya, located near Ava, Mandalay Region, Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989 ...
(r. 1310–1325) and his chief queen
Mi Saw U
, image =
, caption =
, reign = 7 February 1313 – February 1325
, coronation =
, succession = Chief queen consort of Pinya
, predecessor = new office
, successor ...
of
Pagan Dynasty, oral traditions insist that she and her husband were commoners from either
Pagan
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(Bagan) or
Toungoo
Taungoo (, ''Tauñngu myoú''; ), also spelled Toungoo and formerly Toung-ngú, is a district-level city in the Bago Region of Myanmar, 220 km from Yangon, towards the north-eastern end of the division, with mountain ranges to the east an ...
(Taungoo) regions.
[Thaw Kaung 2010: 102, 118–119]
Despite Chronicles' posthumous proclamation of her royal descent, Myo Myat died in the 1520s as a royal servant and did not see her children enter the highest ranks of Toungoo royalty. Her eldest child
Khin Hpone Soe became a principal queen of Tabinshwehti in 1530, and her second child
Ye Htut (Bayinnaung) married the king's half-sister Princess
Thakin Gyi in 1534.
[Sein Lwin Lay 2006: 126–127] Her husband, who remarried after her death to her younger sister, became viceroy of Toungoo between 1540 and 1549.
[Sein Lwin Lay 2006: 312] During Bayinnaung's reign, her other two sons became viceroys of
Martaban
Mottama (, ; Muttama , ; formerly Martaban) is a town in the Thaton District of Mon State, Myanmar. Located on the west bank of the Thanlwin river (Salween), on the opposite side of Mawlamyaing, Mottama was the capital of the Martaban Kingdo ...
(Mottama) and
Prome
Pyay, and formerly anglicised as Prome, is the 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 Ayeyarwady Delta, Cent ...
(Pyay) with the respective styles of
Minye Sithu and
Thado Dhamma Yaza II in 1552, and her brother Sithu was appointed governor of
Pagan
Paganism (, later 'civilian') is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christians for people in the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism, or ethnic religions other than Christianity, Judaism, and Samaritanism. In the time of the ...
(Bagan) in 1551.
[Hmannan Vol. 2 2003: 268–269, 275–276]
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