Saw Taw Oo of Sagaing

Saw Taw Oo (Burmese: စောတော်ဦး, pronounced [sɔ́ dɔ̀ ʔú]) was a queen consort of King Swa Saw Ke of Ava. She was the daughter of King Thihapate of Sagaing, a granddaughter of King Saw Yun, the founder of Sagaing, and a half-sister of King Thado Minbya, the founder of Ava. She was raised to be a queen of Swa Saw Ke with the title of Queen of the Central Palace, succeeding her half-sister Saw Omma. The queen was also given Pagan (Bagan) in fief.[2]

Saw Taw Oo of Sagaing
စောတော်ဦး
Queen of the Central Palace of Ava
Tenurec. 1390s – April 1400
PredecessorSaw Omma of Sagaing
SuccessorMin Pyan of Ava
Queen of the Western Palace of Ava
Tenure5 September 1367 – c. 1390s
Predecessornew office
SuccessorShin Mi-Nauk
Bornc. 1353
Sagaing
Died?
Ava (Inwa)
SpouseSwa Saw Ke
IssueSoe Min Wimala Dewi[1]
FatherMinbyauk Thihapate
MotherSoe Min Kodawgyi
ReligionTheravada Buddhism

Ancestry

The following is her ancestry according to Hmannan. She was descended from Pagan and Pinya royalty. Her father's lineage is not reported except that he was not of royal blood and that he was a grandnephew of Queen Pwa Saw of Pagan.[3]

References

  1. Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 436
  2. Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 404
  3. Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 392

Bibliography

  • Royal Historical Commission of Burma (1832). Hmannan Yazawin (in Burmese). Vol. 1–3 (2003 ed.). Yangon: Ministry of Information, Myanmar.
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