Salin Mibaya

Chief vicereine of Prome

စလင်း မိဖုရားChief vicereine of PromeTenure30 August 1551 – November/December 1588Predecessorunknown

Born1520s
Prome (Pyay)DiedProme (Pyay)SpouseMin Ba Saw
Narapati IV of Ava
Thado Dhamma Yaza II of PromeIssueHsinbyushin Medaw^[1]
Min Taya MedawHousePromeFatherBayin HtweMotherShwe Zin GonReligionTheravada Buddhism

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Salin Mibaya (Burmese: စလင်း မိဖုရား, pronounced [səlɪ́ɴ mḭbəjá]; also known as Narapati Medaw, (နရပတိ မယ်တော်^[2])) was the chief queen of Viceroy Thado Dhamma Yaza II of Prome (r. 1551–1588).

The second daughter of King Bayin Htwe of Prome and his chief queen Shwe Zin Gon was married three times. Her marriage to her first cousin Min Ba Saw—a son of her maternal uncle—was cut short when her brother King Narapati had him executed. Narapati then married her off to Sithu Kyawhtin, then governor of Salin, a powerful figure in the Confederation of Shan States, in a marriage of state in the late 1530s.^[1] (Prome was then a de facto vassal state of the Confederation, which controlled all of Ava territories except Toungoo in Upper Burma.) Her stay at Salin lasted until January 1544 when the city was captured by Toungoo forces under Gen. Bayinnaung. Her husband escaped to Ava (Inwa) but she was captured and sent to Pegu (Bago).^[3] In 1545, she was married to Nanda Yawda, a younger brother of Bayinnaung, at the coronation ceremony of Tabinshwehti at the Pegu Palace.^[4]

She returned to her native Prome as queen in 1551 when her husband was appointed viceroy of the region by King Bayinnaung. She had two daughters by Nanda Yawda, now styled as Thado Dhamma Yaza II. Their elder daughter Hsinbyushin Medaw became the chief queen of Nawrahta Minsaw, the viceroy (and later king) of Lan Na. The younger daughter Min Taya Medaw was a major queen of Nanda.^[5]

Ancestry

The following is her ancestry as reported in the Hmannan Yazawin chronicle, which in turn referenced contemporary inscriptions.^{[note 1]} Her parents were double cousins.

Ancestry of Salin Mibaya

8. (=12) Narapati I of Ava

4. Thado Minsaw of Prome

9. (=13) Atula Thiri Maha Yaza Dewi of Ava

2. Bayin Htwe

10. (=14) Saw Shwe Khet

5. Myat Hpone Pyo

11. (=15) Saw Min Phyu

1. Narapati Medaw

12. (=8) Narapati I of Ava

6. Mingyi Swa of Prome

13. (=9) Atula Thiri Maha Yaza Dewi of Ava

3. Shwe Zin Gon

14. (=10) Saw Shwe Khet

7. Saw Myat Lay

15. (=11) Saw Min Phyu

Notes

^ See (Hmannan Vol. 3 2003: 88) for the names of her maternal grandparents. See (Hmannan Vol. 2 2003: 82–84) for further ancestors.

References

^ ^a ^b Maha Yazawin Vol. 3 2006: 89
^ Ni Ni Myint 2004: 16
^ Maha Yazawin Vol. 2 2006: 168
^ Maha Yazawin Vol. 2 2006: 172
^ Maha Yazawin Vol. 3 2006: 37, 103

Bibliography

Kala, U (1724). Maha Yazawin (in Burmese). Vol. 1–3 (2006, 4th printing ed.). Yangon: Ya-Pyei Publishing.
Ni Ni Myint (2004). Selected Writings of Ni Ni Myint. Yangon: Myanmar Historical Commission.