Yadanabon of Pinya

Yadanabon of Pinya
ရတနာပုံ
Queen Consort of Pinya
Reign 13 April 1310 – c. February 1325
Predecessor Mi Saw U
Successor Atula Maha Dhamma Dewi
Queen Consort of Pinle
Reign 1300s – 13 April 1310
Predecessor Mi Saw U
Successor disestablished
Spouse unnamed
Thihathu
Issue Tarabya I
Sawyun
Saw Pale of Pinya
House Pinya
Born c. 1280s
Linyin
Died Pinya
Religion Theravada Buddhism
For other people named Yadanabon, see Yadanabon.

Yadanabon (Burmese: ရတနာပုံ, pronounced: [jədənàbòʊɴ]) was one of the two queens consort of King Thihathu of Pinya. She was also the mother of kings Sawyun and Tarabya I of Sagaing.

The queen was a commoner from a small village called Linyin, located somewhere in the north. She may have been an ethnic Shan.[note 1] In 1298, she was a widow with a 1-year old child travelling south when she met Thihathu, who was on a hunting trip. Thihathu, who had just founded the Myinsaing Kingdom with his two elder brothers, took her as a concubine. She gave birth to his first male child, Sawyun, a year later. She remained a concubine until after she gave birth to a daughter, Saw Pale. She was raised to be the Queen of the Northern Palace.[1]

The queen's descendants include kings of Sagaing from Sawyun to Tarabya II, as well as King Thadominbya, the founder of Ava Kingdom.[note 2] Furthermore, chief queens consorts of Ava Shin Bo-Me and Shin Myat Hla were her descendants.[1]

Notes

  1. The chronicles (Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 371–372) do not mention her ethnicity, stating only that she was from the north. But British colonial scholarship calls her an ethnic Shan (and indeed Thihathu and his brothers full Shans): See (Phayre 1967: 59–60) and (Harvey 1925: 75–81), for example.
  2. See the regnal list of Sagaing in (Harvey 1925: 366).

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 371–372

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Yadanabon of Pinya
Born: c. 1280s Died: ?
Regnal titles
Preceded by
Mi Saw U
Queen Consort of Pinya
13 April 1310 – c. February 1325
Succeeded by
Atula Maha Dhamma Dewi