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Atula Thiri Maha Yazadewi

Atula Thiri Maha Yaza Dewi
အတုလသီရိ မဟာရာဇဒေဝီ
Chief queen consort of Burma
Tenure 30 April 1550 – 15 June 1568
Coronation 11 January 1551
12 January 1554
Predecessor Dhamma Dewi and Khay Ma Naw
Successor Sanda Dewi
Born c. 1518
Toungoo (Taungoo)
Died 15 June 1568
Tuesday, 7th waning of 1st Waso 930 ME
Pegu (Bago)
Burial Pegu
Spouse Bayinnaung
Issue Inwa Mibaya
Nanda
Full name
Agga-Mahethi Atula Thiri Maha Yaza Dewi
House Toungoo
Father Mingyi Nyo
Mother Yadana Dewi
Religion Theravada Buddhism
Full name
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.)


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