Atula Thiri Maha Yaza Dewi အတုလသီရိ မဟာရာဇဒေဝီ |
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Chief queen consort of Burma | |||||
Tenure | 30 April 1550 – 15 June 1568 | ||||
Coronation | 11 January 1551 12 January 1554 |
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Predecessor | Dhamma Dewi and Khay Ma Naw | ||||
Successor | Sanda Dewi | ||||
Born |
c. 1518 Toungoo (Taungoo) |
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Died | 15 June 1568 Tuesday, 7th waning of 1st Waso 930 ME Pegu (Bago) |
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Burial | Pegu | ||||
Spouse | Bayinnaung | ||||
Issue |
Inwa Mibaya Nanda |
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House | Toungoo | ||||
Father | Mingyi Nyo | ||||
Mother | Yadana Dewi | ||||
Religion | Theravada Buddhism |
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Agga-Mahethi Atula Thiri Maha Yaza Dewi |
Atula Thiri Maha Yaza Dewi (Burmese: အတုလသီရိ မဟာရာဇ ဒေဝီ [ʔətṵla̰ θìɹḭ məhà jàza̰ dèwì]; c. 1518–1568) was the chief queen consort of King Bayinnaung of Burma (Myanmar) from 1550 to 1568. The queen was of Toungoo royalty, daughter of King Mingyi Nyo and younger half-sister of King Tabinshwehti. She was the mother of King Nanda. Her 1534 marriage to Bayinnaung, a commoner, solidified an unfailing alliance between Tabinshwehti and Bayinnaung who together would go on to found the Toungoo Empire (or the Second Burmese Empire).
The future queen of Burma was born Princess Thakin Gyi (သခင်ကြီး) in Toungoo (Taungoo) to King Mingyi Nyo and Khin Nwe (ခင်နွယ်), Princess of Mobye (Mong Pai). Commonly known as Khin Gyi (ခင်ကြီး), the princess was likely half-Shan, a product of the system of marriage alliances among the small kingdoms that dominated Burma at the time. Her maternal grandfather was the sawbwa (chief) of the Shan state of Mobye (present-day northern Kayah State), which was a tributary of the Shan state of Thibaw (Hsipaw). Indeed, Thibaw in turn was a tributary and the only reliable ally of Ava, whose authority Mingyi Nyo had spurned in 1510. (The princess was likely related to Hkonmaing of Thibaw and his son Narapati III of Mobye who became kings of Ava between 1542 and 1551.)