Letya Zeya Thingyan Explained

Birthname:Khin Nyo
Office:Governor of Pyinzi
Term Start: April 1412
Term End:May 1426
Predecessor:Nandathingyan
Successor:Thihapate
Office1:Governor of Launggyet
Monarch1:Minkhaung I
Term Start1: February 1411
Term End1:early 1412
Predecessor1:Min Saw Mon (as king of Launggyet)
Successor1:Min Saw Mon (as king)
Office2:Governor of Toungoo
Monarch2:Minkhaung I
Term Start2:1408/09
Term End2:1412
Predecessor2:Min Nemi
Successor2:Thinkhaya I
Letya Zeya Thingyan
လက်ျာ ဇေယျ သင်္ကြန်
Death Date:?
Allegiance:Ava Kingdom
Rank:Commander
Branch:Royal Ava Army
Commands:Launggyet Army

Letya Zeya Thingyan (Burmese: လက်ျာ ဇေယျ သင်္ကြန်, in Burmese pronounced as /lɛʔjà zèja̰ θɪ́ɴdʑàɴ/) was governor of Toungoo (Taungoo) from 1408/09 to 1412.[1]

Brief

Born Khin Nyo, he was a childhood tutor of King Minkhaung I of Ava. Minkhaung appointed him governor of Toungoo in 1408/09 to replace Min Nemi, who had just died.[2] [3]

His appointment came at the height of the Forty Years' War against the Hanthawaddy Kingdom. He commanded the Toungoo Regiment in the 1410–1412 campaigns of the war. During the war in early 1411, he was appointed governor of Launggyet, the capital of Arakan.[4] [5] [6] He was driven out of Launggyet a year later by a Hanthawaddy army.[7] [5] [8] [9]

At Ava, Minkhaung moved Letya to Pyinzi because the king was concerned that Letya was getting too old to be governor of Toungoo, a frontier town, during the war.[1] He lost his Pyinzi post in 1426 when the new king Mohnyin Thado appointed his son-in-law Thihapate governor of Pyinzi.[10]

Bibliography

Notes and References

  1. Sein Lwin Lay 2006: 26
  2. Yazawin Thit Vol. 1 2012: 235
  3. Hmannan Vol. 2 2003: 1
  4. Maha Yazawin Vol. 2 2006: 28–29
  5. Yazawin Thit Vol. 1 2012: 237–238
  6. Hmannan Vol. 2 2003: 5–6
  7. Maha Yazawin Vol. 2 2006: 30
  8. Hmannan Vol. 2 2003: 6–7
  9. Pan Hla 2005: 274
  10. Hmannan Vol. 2 2003: 61