Min Hla Htut of Pyakaung ( my, ပြကောင်း မင်းသမီး မင်းလှထွတ်, ) was the chief queen of Viceroy

Sithu Kyawhtin of Toungoo Sithu Kyawhtin of Toungoo ( my, တောင်ငူ စည်သူကျော်ထင်, ; died 1481) was Viceroy of Toungoo from 1470 to 1481, and a general in the Ava military. He was the maternal grandfather of Mingyi Nyo, the founder ...

(r. 1470–1481).

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In her youth, the eldest daughter of Crown Prince

Minye Kyawswa Minye Kyawswa ( my, မင်းရဲကျော်စွာ, ; also Minyekyawswa and Minrekyawswa; January 1391 – 13 March 1415) was crown prince of Ava from 1406 to 1415, and commander-in-chief of Ava's military from 1410 to 1415. H ...

and

Saw Min Hla A saw is a tool consisting of a tough blade, wire, or chain with a hard toothed edge. It is used to cut through material, very often wood, though sometimes metal or stone. The cut is made by placing the toothed edge against the material and mov ...

, was known as the Princess of Pyakaung. She was later married to Sithu Kyawhtin, a member of Ava royalty.Both standard chronicles ''

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 ...

'' (Maha Yazawin Vol. 2 2006: ) and ''

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 ...

'' (Hmannan Vol. 2 2003: 54) in the chapter of Ava Kingdom say that Princess of Pyakaung, daughter of Minye Kyawswa and Saw Min Hla married Sithu Kyawhtin of Toungoo. But in describing King Mingyi Nyo's ancestry, ''Maha Yazawin'' (Maha Yazawin Vol. 2 2006: 130) says Min Hla Htut was daughter of Pyakaung Mingyi. ''Hmannan'' (Hmannan Vol. 2 2003: 173) corrects it as she was ''the'' Princess of Pyakaung. The princess had two sons and a daughter:

Min Sithu Min Sithu ( my, မင်းစည်သူ, ) is one of the 37 '' nats'' in the Burmese pantheon of ''nats''. He is the ''nat'' representation of King Alaungsithu of Pagan, who was assassinated by his son Narathu , image = Dhamm ...

, Min Hla Nyet and Min Htwe. In 1470, she and the family moved to Toungoo after her husband was appointed governor of the rebellion-prone vassal state of Ava. Her elder brother

Minye Kyawhtin of Toungoo Minye Kyawhtin ( my, မင်းရဲ ကျော်ထင်, ; also known as Min-nge Kyawhtin (မင်းငယ် ကျော်ထင်), ; 1408–1459) was a pretender to the Ava throne from 1426 to 1459. The eldest son of Crown Pr ...

had raised a rebellion there from 1451 to 1459.Sein Lwin Lay 2006: 33–35 The future founders of

Toungoo Dynasty , conventional_long_name = Toungoo dynasty , common_name = Taungoo dynasty , era = , status = Empire , event_start = Independence from Ava , year_start ...

descended from her. She was the maternal grandmother of King

Mingyi Nyo , image = File:Mingyi Nyo.jpg , caption = Statue of Mingyi Nyo in Taungoo , reign = 16 October 1510 – 24 November 1530 , coronation = 11 April 1511 , succession = King of Toung ...

, who broke away from Ava in 1510, and a maternal great-grandmother of King

Tabinshwehti Tabinshwehti ( my, တပင်‌ရွှေထီး, ; 16 April 1516 – 30 April 1550) was king of Burma (Myanmar) from 1530 to 1550, and the founder of the First Toungoo Empire. His military campaigns (1534–1549) created the largest kin ...

who founded the

Toungoo Empire The First Toungoo Empire ( my, တောင်ငူ ခေတ်, ; also known as the First Toungoo Dynasty, the Second Burmese Empire or simply the Toungoo Empire) was the dominant power in mainland Southeast Asia in the second half of the ...

Ancestry

The princess was descended from Ava and

Pagan Paganism (from classical Latin ''pāgānus'' "rural", "rustic", later "civilian") is a term first used in the fourth century by early Christians for people in the Roman Empire who practiced polytheism, or ethnic religions other than Judaism. ...

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