Minye Kyawswa I of Ava
| Minye Kyawswa I of Ava မင်းရဲကျော်စွာ (အင်းဝ) |
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| King of Ava | |
| Reign | May 1439 – January/February 1442 |
| Predecessor | Mohnyin Thado |
| Successor | Narapati I |
| Born | 18 December 1410 Thursday, 9th waning of Pyatho 772 ME Mohnyin |
| Died | January/February 1442 (aged 31) Tabodwe 803 ME Ava (Inwa) |
| Consort | Min Hla Nyet |
| Issue | Min Mya Hnit |
| House | Mohnyin |
| Father | Mohnyin Thado |
| Mother | Shin Myat Hla |
| Religion | Theravada Buddhism |
Minye Kyawswa I of Ava (Burmese: မင်းရဲကျော်စွာ (အင်းဝ), pronounced: [mɪ́ɴjɛ́ tɕɔ̀zwà]; also spelled Minyekyawswa; 1410–1442) was king of Ava from 1439 to 1442. He spent all of his 3-year reign asserting his rule over his kingdom, and defending against raids by the Shan State of Mogaung. He recovered Toungoo, which had escaped Ava's orbit since the start of his father Mohnyin Thado's reign in 1426. He died at Ava in January/February 1442 while his forces were laying siege to Mogaung. He was succeeded by his brother Narapati, the viceroy of Prome.
Minye Kyawswa was born to Mohnyin Thado, then Governor of Mohnyin, and his wife (later chief queen) Shin Myat Hla on 18 December 1410 in Mohnyin (modern Kachin State). He was the eldest child of the couple's four children. He had a younger brother (later Narapati I of Ava) and two younger sisters. Later in his teenage years, he was made ruler of a small region in Mohnyin called Mo-Shwe by his father, governor of Mohnyin. When his father became king of Ava in 1426, Minye Kyawswa was made heir-apparent, and was given Salin, Saku, and Legaing districts in fief.
Minye Kyawswa's short reign was the archetypal reign of the successive Ava kings in that each king would have to reestablish his rule over his territory. One of his first acts as king was to mediate in a conflict between the saophas (sawbwas, chiefs) of Kale and Mohnyin, and to reassert his rule over the two Shan States, which had been under Ava's suzerainty since the reign of King Minkhaung I. He sent an army to the north. When the expedition arrived at Myedu both chieftains submitted to Ava in fear that the other one would gain the upper hand by submitting first. He installed his brothers-in-law as new saophas.
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