Shin Bo-Me

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

Shin Bo-Me
ရှင်ဘို့မယ်
Queen of the Northern Palace of Ava
Tenurelate May 1426 – c. May 1439
Predecessorherself
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
Successorherself
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
Thihathu
Kale Kye-Taung Nyo
Mohnyin Thado
IssueNone
FatherTheingathu[1]
MotherSaw Salaka Dewi[1]
ReligionTheravada Buddhism

Brief

Considered a great beauty, Bo-Me was the favorite queen of Minkhaung I.[2] Although the Hmannan Yazawin chronicle states she became the chief queen of Minkhaung in 1407/08,[3] an inscription dated 28 February 1409 by Queen Shin Saw states that Saw was still the chief queen in 1409.[4] 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.[5] In May 1426, Nyo was overthrown by Gov. Thado of Mohnyin, who subsequently made Bo-Me a junior queen.[6]

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.
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References
  1. Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 372
  2. Harvey 1925: 93–96
  3. Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 486
  4. Than Tun 1959: 125–126
  5. Hmannan Vol. 2 2003: 57–58
  6. 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 (1832). Hmannan Yazawin (in Burmese). 1–3 (2003 ed.). Yangon: Ministry of Information, Myanmar.
  • Than Tun (December 1959). "History of Burma: A.D. 1300–1400". Journal of Burma Research Society. XLII (II).
Shin Bo-Me
Ava Dynasty
Born: 1390s Died: ?
Royal titles
Preceded by
herself		 Queen of the Northern Palace of Ava
May 1426 – May 1439		 Succeeded by
Tanzaung Mibaya
Preceded by
Saw Min Hla		 Chief queen consort of Ava
November 1425 – 16 May 1426		 Succeeded by
Shin Myat Hla
Preceded by
Saw Khway		 Queen of the Northern Palace of Ava
c. October 1421 – August 1425		 Succeeded by
herself
Preceded by
Shin Mi-Nauk		 Queen of the Western Palace of Ava
August 1408 – c. October 1421		 Succeeded by
Taungdwin Mibaya
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