Shin Bo-Me
ရှင်ဘို့မယ်
Queen of the Northern Palace of Ava
Tenurelate May 1426 – April 1439
PredecessorShin Sawbu
SuccessorTanzaung Mibaya
Chief queen consort of Ava
Tenureby 9 November 1425 – 16 May 1426
PredecessorSaw Min Hla
SuccessorShin Myat Hla
Queen of the Northern Palace of Ava
Tenurec. October 1421 – August 1425
PredecessorSaw Khway
SuccessorShin Sawbu
Queen of the Western Palace of Ava
Tenurec. August 1408 – c. October 1421
PredecessorShin Mi-Nauk
SuccessorTaungdwin Mibaya
Born1390s
Taungdwin
Died?
Ava (Inwa)
SpouseMinkhaung I (1408–1421)
Thihathu (1421–1425)
Kale Kye-Taung Nyo (1425–1426)
Mohnyin Thado (1426–1439)
IssueNone
FatherTheingathu[1]
MotherSaw Salaka Dewi[1]
ReligionTheravada Buddhism

Shin Bo-Me (Burmese: ရှင်ဘို့မယ်, [ʃɪ̀ɰ̃ bo̰ mɛ̀]; also spelled Shin Bo-Mai) was a principal queen of four kings of Ava in the early 15th century.

Brief

Considered a great beauty, Bo-Me was the favorite queen of Minkhaung I.[2] She was also a half-niece of Minkhaung; her mother Saw Salaka Dewi and Minkhaung were half-siblings.[3] Although the Hmannan Yazawin chronicle states she became the chief queen of Minkhaung in 1407/08,[4] an inscription dated 28 February 1409 by Queen Shin Saw states that Saw was still the chief queen in 1409.[5] She was also the favorite queen of Minkhaung's son and successor Thihathu until Shin Saw Pu became queen. In August 1425, Bo-Me engineered the death of Thihathu by getting Le Than Bwa of Onbaung to assassinate the king. She might have married the successor, eight-year-old Min Hla.[note 1] Three months later, she poisoned the boy king and put her lover Prince Min Nyo on the Ava throne, and became the chief queen.[6] In May 1426, Nyo was overthrown by Gov. Thado of Mohnyin, who subsequently made Bo-Me a junior queen.[7]

Ancestry

The following is her ancestry as given in the Hmannan Yazawin chronicle.[note 2] She was a granddaughter of King Swa Saw Ke of Ava, and Kyawswa I of Pinya, and a great granddaughter of King Thihathu of Pinya and King Kyawswa of Pagan.

Notes

  1. ↑ (Harvey 1925: 97) says Mohnyin Thado was her "fifth crowned consort". But the chronicles do not say that Bo-Me ever married the 8-year-old Min Hla; they say only that she had him poisoned.
  2. ↑ See (Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 372). Her mother Salaka Dewi may have married more than once—(Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 404) Salaka Dewi, daughter of Swa Saw Ke was married to Sithu of Myinsaing—or Salaka Dewi's husband had two titles over his career, Sithu and Theinkhathu.

References

  1. 1 2 Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 372
  2. ↑ Harvey 1925: 93–96
  3. ↑ Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 373
  4. ↑ Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 486
  5. ↑ Than Tun 1959: 125–126
  6. ↑ Hmannan Vol. 2 2003: 57–58
  7. ↑ Htin Aung 1967: 93–94

Bibliography

  • Harvey, G. E. (1925). History of Burma: From the Earliest Times to 10 March 1824. London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd.
  • Htin Aung, Maung (1967). A History of Burma. New York and London: Cambridge University Press.
  • Royal Historical Commission of Burma (2003) [1832]. Hmannan Yazawin (in Burmese). Vol. 1–3. Yangon: Ministry of Information, Myanmar.
  • Than Tun (December 1959). "History of Burma: A.D. 1300–1400". Journal of Burma Research Society. XLII (II).
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