Family of Bayinnaung
| Family of Bayinnaung | |
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Statue of Bayinnaung in Yangon
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| Ethnicity | Burman, Shan, Mon, Siamese, Tai Yuan, Lao |
| Place of origin | Upper Burma, Lower Burma, Shan states, Chinese Shan states, Siam, Lan Na, Lan Xang, Manipur |
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| Connected families | House of Toungoo, House of Hanthawaddy, House of Phitsanulok |
These are the lists related to the Family of King Bayinnaung of the Toungoo Dynasty of Burma. The king had over 50 wives and nearly 100 children. All the Toungoo monarchs after him were descended from him.
His ancestry is unclear. The chronicles claim that he was of royal ancestry (from all the previous main Upper Burma dynasties) while oral traditions say he was of commoner origins.
Bayinnaung had three queens consort. After the death of his first chief queen Atula Thiri in 1568, Sanda Dewi became the chief and only queen for the remainder of his reign (1568–81).
The following is a list of junior queens who bore him at least one child per the Hmannan Yazawin chronicle (Hmannan Vol. 3 2003: 68–73). Several of the queens came over through marriages of state.
Below are other junior wives who appeared elsewhere in the chronicles. They have to account for the king's children (Wara Dhamma, Kaweya Hla Nyi, Thukhawaddy, Min A-Kyi, Thugandawaddy, Myat Myo Hpone Wai and Myo Myat Hpone Si) whose mothers' names are unknown.
The king had three daughters and three sons by his senior queens.
The following is a list of his children by junior queens. The list is ordered by the mother of the children, and then by the age of the children per the Hmannan Yazawin chronicle. Note that although both Maha Yazawin and Hmannan chronicles say that he had 35 sons and 56 daughters by junior queens and concubines, the detailed list, which appears only in Hmannan (Hmannan Vol. 3 2003: 68–73), enumerates only 86 children (32 sons, 54 daughters). The rest of the children are mentioned in the various parts of the chronicles. The grand total comes to at least 92 different names which consisted of 33 sons and 59 daughters. The discrepancy may be due to recording errors in the sex and/or number of the unnamed children who died young.
The following are the children (1 son, 5 daughters) whose names are not listed in Hmannan's detailed list but appear in other parts of in both Maha Yazawin and Hmannan.
He had four full siblings.
He had two half-siblings, who were born to his father and his maternal aunt.
A 17th generation descendant of his still holds hereditary office in Bohmong Circle in the Chittagong Hill Tracts region of Bangladesh.
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