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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 Toung ...
of the
Toungoo Dynasty
, conventional_long_name = Toungoo dynasty
, common_name = Taungoo dynasty
, era =
, status = Empire
, event_start = Independence from Ava
, year_start ...
of
Burma
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...
. The king had over 50 wives and nearly 100 children.
[ All the Toungoo monarchs after him were descended from him.][Htin Aung 1967: 339]
Ancestry
His ancestry is unclear. The chronicles claim that he was of royal ancestry (from all the previous main Upper Burma dynasties) while oral traditions say he was of commoner origins.[Thaw Kaung 2010: 102–105]
Queens consort
Principal queens
Bayinnaung had three queens consort. After the death of his first chief queen Atula Thiri in 1568, Sanda Dewi
Sanda Dewi ( my, စန္ဒာဒေဝီ ; pi, Candādevī) was one of the three principal queens of King Bayinnaung of Burma from 1553 to 1581. She was also a queen of the last two kings of Prome Kingdom from 1532 to 1542. She was the matern ...
became the chief and only queen for the remainder of his reign (1568–81).[
]
Junior queens
The following is a list of junior queens who bore him at least one child per the ''Hmannan Yazawin'' chronicle (Hmannan Vol. 3 2003: 68–73).[ Several of the queens came over through marriages of state.][Lieberman 2003: 155]
Below are other junior wives who appeared elsewhere in the chronicles. They have to account for the king's children (Waradamas, Kaweya Hla Nyi, Thukhawaddy, Min A-Kyi, Thugandawaddy, Myat Myo Hpone Wai and Myo Myat Hpone Si) whose mothers' names are unknown.
Issue
By senior queens
The king had three daughters and three sons by his senior queens.[Maha Yazawin Vol. 3 2006: 77][Hmannan Vol. 3 2003: 73]
By junior queens
The following is a list of his children by junior queens. The list is ordered by the mother of the children, and then by the age of the children per 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 Konbaung ...
'' chronicle.[Hmannan Vol. 3 2003: 68–73] Note that although both ''Maha Yazawin
The ''Maha Yazawin'', fully the ''Maha Yazawindawgyi'' ( my, မဟာ ရာဇဝင်တော်ကြီး, ) and formerly romanized as the ,. is the first national chronicle of Burma/Myanmar. Completed in 1724 by U Kala, a historian at t ...
'' and ''Hmannan'' chronicles say that he had 35 sons and 56 daughters by junior queens and concubines,[ the detailed list, which appears only in ''Hmannan'' (Hmannan Vol. 3 2003: 68–73), enumerates only 86 children (32 sons, 54 daughters). The rest of the children are mentioned in the various parts of the chronicles. The grand total comes to at least 92 different names which consisted of 33 sons and 59 daughters. The discrepancy may be due to recording errors in the sex and/or number of the unnamed children who died young.
The following are the children (1 son, 5 daughters) whose names are not listed in ''Hmannan's'' detailed list but appear in other parts of in both ''Maha Yazawin'' and ''Hmannan''.
]
Siblings
Full siblings
He had four full siblings.[Sein Lwin Lay 2006: 247–248]
Half siblings
He had two half-siblings, who were born to his father and his maternal aunt.[
]
Notable relations
Nephews and nieces
Grandchildren and beyond
In-laws
Modern descendants
A 17th generation descendant of his still holds hereditary office in Bohmong Circle
The Bohmong Circle ( my, ဗိုလ်မင်းထောင်) is one of three hereditary chiefdoms (or "circles") in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of modern-day Bangladesh. The jurisdiction of the Bohmong Circle encompasses parts of Bandarba ...
(modern-day Bandarban District
Bandarban ( bn, বান্দরবান, Chakma: 𑄝𑄚𑄴𑄘𑄧𑄢𑄴𑄝𑄚𑄴) is a district in South-Eastern Bangladesh, and a part of the Chittagong Division. It is one of the three hill districts of Bangladesh and a part o ...
) in the Chittagong Hill Tracts
The Chittagong Hill Tracts ( bn, পার্বত্য চট্টগ্রাম, Parbotto Chottogram), often shortened to simply the Hill Tracts and abbreviated to CHT, are group of districts within the Chittagong Division in southeast ...
region of Bangladesh
Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the mos ...
.
Notes
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* {{cite book , last=Thaw Kaung , first=U , title=Aspects of Myanmar History and Culture , year=2010 , publisher=Gangaw Myaing , location=Yangon
Toungoo dynasty