Yadanabon of Pinya

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

For other people with similar names, see Yadanabon.
Yadanabon of Pinya
ရတနာပုံ
Queen of the Northern Palace of Pinya
Tenure7 February 1313 – c. February 1325
Predecessornew office
Successorunknown
Queen of the Northern Palace of Pinle
Tenure1300s – 7 February 1313
Predecessornew office
Successordisestablished
Bornc. 1280s
Linyin
DiedPinya
Spouseunnamed
Thihathu
IssueTarabya I
Saw Yun
Saw Pale
HousePinya
ReligionTheravada Buddhism

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, Saw Yun, 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 Saw Yun to Tarabya II, as well as King Thado Minbya, 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. Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 371–372

Bibliography
  • Harvey, G. E. (1925). History of Burma: From the Earliest Times to 10 March 1824. London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd.
  • Phayre, Lt. Gen. Sir Arthur P. (1883). History of Burma (1967 ed.). London: Susil Gupta.
  • Royal Historical Commission of Burma (1832). Hmannan Yazawin (in Burmese). Vol. 1–3 (2003 ed.). Yangon: Ministry of Information, Myanmar.
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