Leik Munhtaw ( my, လိပ်မွတ်ထော, ;
Mon
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: ; 1432–1454) was the 14th king of the
Hanthawaddy Pegu Kingdom in Burma for seven months in 1453–54. He came to power by assassinating his first cousin King
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 ...
. Binnya Kyan himself had come to power in 1451 by murdering his cousin King
Binnya Waru
Binnya Waru ( my, ဗညားဗရူး, ; Mon: ; c. 1418–1451) was the 12th king of the Hanthawaddy Kingdom in Burma from 1446 to 1451. He was a nephew and adopted son of King Binnya Ran I after whom he succeeded to the Hanthawaddy throne. ...
, and went on to kill off male descendants 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 ...
.
[Harvey 1925: 368] Leik Munhtaw, 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 ...
and a grandson of Razadarit, got to Binnya Kyan, also a grandson of Razadarit, first. Leik Munhtaw went on to kill more rivals. In early 1454, palace ministers killed Leik Munhtaw, leaving no male heir of Razadarit's line. The ministers chose his daughter
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 ...
to be the next ruler of Hanthawaddy.
[Phayre 1967: 84]
Brief
Various Burmese chronicles do not agree on the key dates of the king's life.
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Hanthawaddy dynasty
1454 deaths
Year of birth unknown
15th-century Burmese monarchs