Thiri Zeya Thura ( my, သီရိဇေယျသူရ, ) was governor of

Pakhan Yesagyo Township (Yaesagyo Township) is a township of Pakokku District in the Magway Region of central Burma (Myanmar). The principal town and administrative seat is Yesagyo. The township is served by the Chaung-U to Pakokku railway. Borders Yesa ...

from 1426 to 1429.Yazawin Thit Vol. 1 2012: 274, 277Hmannan Vol. 2 2003: 64, 69 A younger brother of Queen

Shin Myat Hla of Ava Shin Myat Hla ( my, ရှင်မြတ်လှ, ; also known as Shin Mi-MyatHmannan Vol. 1 2003: 440 or Me Myat HlaLetwe Nawrahta 1961: 12) was the chief queen consort of King Mohnyin Thado of Ava (now Burma) from 1426 to 1439. She was also ...

, he was posted at Pakhan in August 1426 by his brother-in-law King

Mohnyin Thado Mohnyin Thado ( my, မိုးညှင်း သတိုး, ; 1379–1439) was king of Ava from 1426 to 1439. He is also known in Burmese history as Mohnyin Min Taya (မိုးညှင်း မင်းတရား, , "Righteous L ...

. He was the father of Queen Min Hla Nyet of Ava.Yazawin Thit Vol. 1 2012: 272Hmannan Vol. 2 2003: 61

Ancestry

The following is his older sister Queen Shin Myat Hla's ancestry as given in 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. 2 2003: 62–63): Queen Mya Hla's fresco writings from the Shwe Kyaung Monastery in

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. ...

(Bagan), her paternal grandfather was Thray Sithu, and her maternal grandfather was Thettawshay. The writers of ''Hmannan'' identified the Thettawshay as Thettawshay of Myinsaing, who was a son-in-law of King

Thihathu Thihathu ( my, သီဟသူ, ; 1265–1325) was a co-founder of the Myinsaing Kingdom, and the founder of the Pinya Kingdom in today's central Burma (Myanmar).Coedès 1968: 209 Thihathu was the youngest and most ambitious of the three brother ...

. Since King Thihathu died in 1325, the maternal grandmother was unlikely to have been Thihathu's daughter. It is likely that Queen Myat Hla and Thiri Zeya Thura's maternal grandmother was another wife of Thet-taw-shay. His father was governor of

Taungdwin Taungdwingyi ( my, တောင်တွင်းကြီး ) is a town located in Magway Region, Myanmar. Town scape The town is divided into ten main quarters. They are Ohndaw Quarter 1, Ohndaw Quarter 2, Taungbyin Quarter 1, Taungbyin Qua ...

from the 1360s to at least until 1402.(Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 398, 400): His father declared himself king with the title of Thet-taw-shay Thihapate when the

Pinya Kingdom The Kingdom of Pinya ( my, ပင်းယခေတ်, ), also known as the Vijaia State (၀ိဇယတိုင်း), was the kingdom that ruled Central Myanmar (Burma) from 1313 to 1365. It was the successor state of Myinsaing, the poli ...

collapsed in 1364. He submitted to the new 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 ...

, in the dry season of 1366–67, only after the latter had laid siege to Taungdwin. According to inscriptional evidence, Thihapate was still governor of Taungdwin in 1402 per (Hmannan Vol. 2 2003: 63).

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