Binnya Waru ( my, ဗညားဗရူး, ;

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: ; c. 1418–1451) was the 12th king of the

Hanthawaddy Kingdom ( Mon) ( Burmese) , conventional_long_name = Kingdom of Hongsarwatoi (Hanthawaddy) Pegu , common_name = Hongsarwatoi (Hanthawaddy) Kingdom / Ramannya (Ramam) , era = Warring states , status = Kingdom , event_pre ...

in Burma from 1446 to 1451. He was a nephew and adopted son of King

Binnya Ran I Binnya Ran I ( mnw, ပထမ ဗညာရာံ; my, ပထမ ဗညားရံ, ; 1393–1446) was king of Hanthawaddy Pegu from 1424 to 1446. As crown prince, he ended the Forty Years' War with the rival Ava Kingdom in 1423. He came to th ...

after whom he succeeded to the Hanthawaddy throne. The king was known for his strict disciplinary rule. He reportedly liked to travel around the kingdom disguised as a commoner to observe the affairs firsthand, and meted out justice even to those who committed petty crimes. Binnya Waru was killed by his first cousin

Binnya Kyan Binnya Kyan ( my, ဗညားကျန်း, ; 1420–1453) was the 13th king of the Hanthawaddy Pegu Kingdom in Burma from 1451 to 1453. Binnya Kyan, son of King Binnya Dhammaraza, came to power after assassinating his cousin King Binnya Wa ...

, son of King

Binnya Dhammaraza Binnya Dhammaraza ( mnw, ဗညာ ဓမ္မရာဇာ, my, ဗညား ဓမ္မရာဇာ, ; also spelled Banya Dhamma Yaza;Aung-Thwin 2017: 261 1393–1424) was king of Hanthawaddy Pegu from 1421 to 1424. His short reign was mark ...

, in 1451.Harvey 1925: 116

Brief

Binnya Waru was born to

Shin Sawbu Shin Sawbu ( my, ရှင်စောပု, ; mnw, မိစဴဗု; 1394–1471) was queen regnant of Hanthawaddy from 1454 to 1471. Queen Shin Sawbu is also known as Binnya Thau ( mnw, ဗညားထောဝ်; mnw, ဨကရာဇ� ...

, a daughter of King

Razadarit Razadarit ( mnw, ရာဇာဓိရာတ်,The spelling "ရာဇာဓိရာတ်" per ''Slapat Rajawan'' (Schmidt 1906: 118) and the 1485 Shwedagon Pagoda inscription (Pan Hla 2005: 368, footnote 1). Nai Pan Hla's ''Razadarit Ayedawb ...

and Binnya Bye, Razadarit's nephew. He had two sisters Netaka Taw and Netaka Thin. His father died in 1419. In 1423, his mother Shin Sawbu was sent to Ava as a present to King

Thihathu of Ava Thihathu of Ava ( my, သီဟသူ, ; also known as Aung Pinle Hsinbyushin Thihathu; 1394–1425) was king of Ava from 1421 to 1425. Though he opportunistically renewed the Forty Years' War with Hanthawaddy Pegu in 1422, Thihathu agreed to ...

by his uncle Crown Prince Binnya Ran. A year later, after Binnya Ran became king after poisoning King

, another one of his uncles, Binnya Ran adopted the parent-less Waru as his own.Phayre 1967: 81–84 In 1430, his mother Shin Sawbu fled Ava and returned to Pegu. But none of her children, Waru included, recognized her since she had been away for seven years. He ascended the throne in 1446 after his uncle

's death. He reigned for about five years.

Historiography

Various Burmese chronicles do not agree on the key dates of the king's life.

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