Commander Nga Nu also known as Athwinthin Hmu Nga Nu
[''Athwinthin Hmu'' means "Captain/Commander of the Inner Royal Household Guards".] ( my, အတွင်းသင်းမှူး ငနု, ) was a military commander in the service of King
Thado Minbya
Thado Minbya ( my, သတိုးမင်းဖျား, ; also spelt as Thadominbya; 7 December 1345 – 3 September 1367) was the founder of the Kingdom of Ava. In his three plus years of reign (1364–67), the king laid the foundation for ...
of
Ava, and a close adviser to the king. After the death of Thado Minbya in September 1367, the commander tried to seize the throne with the help of Queen
Saw Omma. He got Saw Omma to his side by telling her that Thado Minbya had ordered him to kill his chief queen lest she should pass to another man. With the threat, he got Saw Omma to marry him.
[Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 400–402][Harvey 1925: 81]
The coup failed despite he and his men having tried killing off anyone who opposed them at the palace. The court was not ready to accept Nga Nu, a commoner from both sides, as king.
[ The couple fled to ]Sagaing
Sagaing (, ) is the former capital of the Sagaing Region of Myanmar. It is located in the Irrawaddy River, to the south-west of Mandalay on the opposite bank of the river. Sagaing with numerous Buddhist monasteries is an important religious and ...
where they hoped to revive the old Sagaing Kingdom
The Sagaing Kingdom ( my, စစ်ကိုင်း နေပြည်တော်, ) was a small kingdom ruled by a junior branch of the Myinsaing dynasty from 1315 to 1365. Originally the northern province of Sagaing of the Pinya Kingdom, i ...
. But they never gained the support of former vassals of Sagaing. When the new king Swa Saw Ke
Mingyi Swa Saw Ke ( my, မင်းကြီး စွာစော်ကဲ, ; also spelled စွာစောကဲ, Minkyiswasawke or Swasawke; 1330–1400) was king of Ava from 1367 to 1400. He reestablished central authority in Upper Mya ...
sent a battalion commanded by Nga Nu's brother Yazathingyan Nga Mauk, Nga Nu fled while Saw Omma was captured.[
He and his men remained active at the northern edges of the kingdom for the next few years. From their base in Lahu (present-day Myataung in ]Katha District
Katha District is the northeasternmost district in Sagaing Region of Myanmar. ), they raided northern towns from time to time.[Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 402, 406]
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* {{cite book , author=Royal Historical Commission of Burma , author-link=Royal Historical Commission of Burma , title=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 ...
, volume=1–3 , year=1832 , location=Yangon , language=Burmese , edition=2003 , publisher=Ministry of Information, Myanmar
Ava dynasty