Shin Saw Gyi ( my, ရှင်စောကြီး, ) was a chief queen consort of 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 ...

of Ava. She was also a principal queen of kings

Kyawswa II of Pinya , image = , caption = , reign = 12 December 1350 – 19 March 1359 , coronation = , succession = King of Pinya , predecessor = Kyawswa I , successor = N ...

Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 384–385 and

Narathu of Pinya , image = , caption = , reign = 19 March 1359 – May 1364 , coronation = 7 June 1360 , succession = King of Pinya , predecessor = Kyawswa II , successor ...

.Yazawin Thit Vol. 1 2012: 170 She was a granddaughter of King

Saw Yun , image = , caption = , reign = 15 May 1315 – 5 February 1327 , coronation = , succession = King of Sagaing , predecessor = Thihathu , successor = Tar ...

, the founder of

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 ...

, and a sister 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 ...

, the founder of Ava Kingdom. She was originally a queen consort of Swa, and was given the title of Queen of the Northern Palace and

Pinya Pinya ( my, ပင်းယ), or Vijayapura, was the capital of the Kingdom of Pinya, located near Ava, Mandalay Region, Myanmar. It was the residence of the Pinya dynasty who ruled this part of central Myanmar from 1313 to 1365.Hmannan Vol. 1 20 ...

in fief. She became the chief queen after Queen

Khame Mi Khame Mi ( my, ခမည်းမိ, ) was the first chief queen consort of King Swa Saw Ke of Ava. She is regarded as the mother of King Tarabya, the successor of Swa, by the standard Burmese chronicles despite inscriptional evidence to the c ...

died, and became the Queen of the Southern Palace.Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 404Per inscriptional evidence, Khame Mi was still alive on 18 December 1387 (Wed, 10th waxing of Pyatho 749 ME) per (Taw, Forchhammer 1899: 152), and Shin Saw Gyi was mentioned as the chief queen on 13 June 1398 (Wed, 12th waxing of Waso 760 ME) per (Taw, Forchhammer 1899: 164) The queen may also be the mother of King

Tarabya Tarabya ( ota, Tarabiye, el, Θεραπειά, translit=Therapiá) is a neighbourhood in the Sarıyer district of Istanbul, Turkey. It is located on the European shoreline of the Bosphorus strait, between the neighbourhoods of Yeniköy, Istanbul, ...

, the successor of Swa. The ''

Yazawin Thit ''Maha Yazawin Thit'' ( my, မဟာ ရာဇဝင် သစ်, ; ; also known as ''Myanmar Yazawin Thit'' or ''Yazawin Thit'') is a national chronicle of Burma (Myanmar). Completed in 1798, the chronicle was the first attempt by the Konbau ...

'' chronicle, citing a contemporary inscription, states that Tarabya was also a child of Shin Saw Gyi. But 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 rejects it anyway, saying that it was contrary to the reporting by previous chronicles.Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 435 ''Hmannan'' recognizes only two children by her, Saw Myat Ke(Taw, Frorchhammer 1899: 164): Saw Myat Ke died in 1398 for whom the king and the queen dedicated a monastery near

Tada-U Tada-U or Tadau is a town in central Myanmar about from the provincial capital of Mandalay. Transport It is served by a branch line of the Myanmar Railways built in 1994. Tada Oo- Myotha Railway Line is end in Pyithayar Station(Gwaykone) ...

on 26 June 1398. and Saw Swe Hnit.Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 436

Ancestry

The following is her ancestry according to ''Hmannan''. She was descended from

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. ...

and

royalty. Her paternal side is unreported except that her father was of the Tagaung royal line.Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 392

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