Theinkha Bo (, ) was the father of kings

Athinkhaya Athinkhaya (, ; also spelled Athinhkaya; 12611310) was a co-founder of Myinsaing Kingdom in present-day Central Burma (Myanmar).Coedès 1968: 209 As a senior commander in the Royal Army of the Pagan Empire, he, along with his two younger bro ...

Yazathingyan Yazathingyan (, ; 1263 – 1312/13) was a co-founder of Myinsaing Kingdom in present-day Central Burma (Myanmar).Coedès 1968: 209 As a senior commander in the Royal Army of the Pagan Empire, he, along with his two brothers Athinkhaya and T ...

and

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 Myinsaing, the dynasty that replaced the Pagan Dynasty in 1297.Maha Yazawin Vol. 1 2006: 254 His descendants founded the kingdoms that succeeded Pagan: Myinsaing,

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 ...

Sagaing Sagaing (, ) is a town in the Sagaing Region of Myanmar. It is located on the Irrawaddy River, to the south-west of Mandalay on the opposite bank of the river. Sagaing, with its numerous Buddhist monasteries, is an important religious and ...

and Ava. According to the

Burmese chronicles The royal chronicles of Myanmar ( ; also known as Burmese chronicles) are detailed and continuous chronicles of the Burmese monarchy, monarchy of Myanmar (Burma). The chronicles were written on different media such as parabaik paper, palm-leaf ...

, Theinkha Bo was born in Binnaka to the '' sawbwa (saopha)'' (chief) of the town. Some time after his elder brother succeeded the chieftainship, he and his brother quarreled, forcing Theinkha Bo to leave town. He eventually settled at Myinsaing, a small town located in present-day

Kyaukse District Kyaukse District is a district of the Mandalay Region in central Myanmar. Townships The district contains the following Townships of Myanmar, townships: *Kyaukse Township *Sintgaing Township *Myittha Township Tada-U Township was promoted as Tad ...

, and married a woman from a wealthy family there in 1260. The couple had four children. His three sons served in the Pagan army, and became commanders that King

Narathihapate Narathihapate (, ; also Sithu IV of Pagan; 23 April 1238 – 1 July 1287) was the last king of the Pagan Kingdom, Pagan Empire who reigned from 1256 to 1287. The king is known in Burmese history as the "Taruk-Pyay Min" ("the King who fled from th ...

relied on. His youngest child married a son of the king. Although the chronicles do not mention his ethnicity, British colonial era historians assumed that he was of Shan ethnicity based on the fact that his father was a ''sawbwa''.See (Phayre 1967: 57) and (Harvey 1925: 75–76). The historian Michael Aung-Thwin has argued however that it is a mistake to equate the office with ethnicity, and that colonial scholarship grafted on Shan ethnicity to the so-called Shan brothers without any evidence.See (Aung-Thwin 1996) and (Aung-Thwin and Aung-Thwin 2012: 107–109).

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* * * * * {{cite book , last=Phayre , author-link=Arthur Purves Phayre , first=Lt. Gen. Sir Arthur P. , title=History of Burma , year=1883 , edition=1967 , publisher=Susil Gupta , location=London Pagan dynasty 13th-century Burmese people