Yadanabon of Pinya explained

Consort:yes
Yadanabon of Pinya
ရတနာပုံ
Reign:7 February 1313 – February 1325
Succession:Queen of the Northern Palace of Pinya
Predecessor:new office
Successor:unknown
Reign1:1300s – 7 February 1313
Succession1:Queen of the Northern Palace of Pinle
Predecessor1:new office
Successor1:disestablished
Suc-Type:Successor
Spouse:unnamed
Thihathu
Issue:Tarabya I
Saw Yun
Saw Pale
House:Pinya
Birth Date: 1280s
Birth Place:Linyin
Death Place:Pinya
Religion:Theravada Buddhism

Yadanabon (Burmese: ရတနာပုံ, in Burmese pronounced as /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.

The queen was a commoner from a small village called Linyin, located somewhere in the north. She may have been an ethnic Shan.[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.[2]

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.[3] Furthermore, chief queens consorts of Ava Shin Bo-Me and Shin Myat Hla were her descendants.[2]

Bibliography

Notes and References

  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. Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 371–372
  3. See the regnal list of Sagaing in (Harvey 1925: 366).