, image = Queen Supayagyi.jpg , caption = , succession = Chief queen consort of Burma , reign = 30 October 1878 – 12 April 1879 , predecessor = Thiri Pawara Maha Yazeinda Yadana Dewi , successor =

Supayalat Supayalat (, ; 13 December 1859 – 24 November 1925), also spelt Suphayalat, was the last queen of Burma who reigned in Mandalay (1878–1885), born to King Mindon Min and Queen of Alenandaw (; also known as Hsinbyumashin or Lady of the White Elep ...

, succession1 = Princess of Mong Nawng , reign1 = 1854 – 1878 , coronation1 = , predecessor1 = , successor1 = ''disestablished'' , birth_date = 1854 , birth_place = Mandalay, Burma , death_date = , death_place = Mingun, British Burma , consort = yes , spouse = Thibaw , issue = None , full name = , house = Konbaung , father = King Mindon , mother =

Hsinbyumashin Hsinbyumashin (; 22 November 1821 – 26 February 1900) was a List of Burmese consorts, senior queen of King Mindon Min of Burma during the Konbaung dynasty. She was known for the Bronze Hall Massacre. She was the daughter of King Bagyidaw and his ...

, religion = Theravada Buddhism , place of burial = Shwedagon Pagoda,

Yangon Yangon, formerly romanized as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar. Yangon was the List of capitals of Myanmar, capital of Myanmar until 2005 and served as such until 2006, when the State Peace and Dev ...

Myanmar 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 has ...

Supayagyi (; 1854 – 25 February 1912), also spelt Suphayagyi, was the penultimate chief queen consort of the Konbaung dynasty, and was married to Thibaw Min, the last monarch in the dynasty.

Early life

Supayagyi, born in 1854 as Hteiksu Phayagyi (), was the eldest of three daughters between King Mindon and

. She was a full-blooded sister of

and

Supayalay Supayalay (; 1863 – 25 June 1912) was a junior queen consort of the Konbaung dynasty, and was married to her half-brother Thibaw Min, the last monarch in the dynasty, in 1878. She was one of the three only queens of King Thibaw. Early life Su ...

. She received the appanage of Mong Nawng and was therefore known as the Princess of Mong Nawng, with the royal title of Susīriratanamaṅgaladevī.

Coronation

The ambitious Hsinbyumashin, after placing Thibaw on the throne, offered her oldest daughter Hteik Supayagyi, to be his queen. During the royal Aggamahesi coronation, Supayalat pushed in next to her sister to be anointed queen at the same time, breaking an ancient royal custom. This resulted in two queens being anointed in parallel, a situation that had never occurred before in the history of Burma. Her marriage was never consummated, and Supayalat was known to have enforced monogamy on a Burmese king for the first and last time in history, despite Thibaw later marrying her youngest sister, Supayalay, Princess of Yamethin.

Exile

The royal family's reign lasted just seven years when Thibaw Min was defeated in the Third Anglo-Burmese War and forced to abdicate by the British in 1885. On 25 November 1885 they were taken away in a covered carriage, leaving Mandalay Palace by the southern gate of the walled city along the streets lined by British soldiers and their wailing subjects, to the River Irrawaddy where a steamboat called ''Thuriya'' (Sun) awaited. Supayagyi and the queen mother were sent to Tavoy (now Dawei). She died with Buddhist nun life ( Thilashin) on 25 February 1912 in Mingun after her mother, who died in 1900. Her remains were interred in the southern section of Shwedagon Pagoda in modern-day

Early life

Coronation

Exile

References

See also