Mwei Kaw

Hnin An Daung Mwei Kaw (Burmese: နှင်းအံဒေါင်း မွေ့ကော, pronounced [n̥ɪ́ɴ ʔàɴ dáʊ̯ɴ mwḛ kɔ́]; also spelled as Hnin An Daw) was a principal queen consort of King Binnya U of Martaban–Hanthawaddy. She may have been Binnya U's second chief queen consort.

Hnin An Daung Mwei Kaw နှင်းအံဒေါင်း မွေ့ကော
Chief Queen of Martaban–Hanthawaddy
Tenure	1348 – 1384
Predecessor	Sanda Min Hla II
Successor	Piya Yaza Dewi
Born	c. 1330s Martaban (Mottama)? Martaban Kingdom
Died	? Pegu (Bago) Hanthawaddy Kingdom
Spouse	Binnya U (1348–1384)
Issue	Tala Mi Thiri
House	Hanthawaddy Pegu
Father	Than-Bon
Religion	Theravada Buddhism

Brief

Born Mwei Kaw, she was the second daughter of Minister Than-Bon of the Martaban court. She and her two sisters Mwei It and Mwei Zeik became queens of Binnya U soon after his accession.[1] Their youngest sister Mwei Daw later became a wife of Binnya U about five years later.[2]

Her royal title was Hnin An Daung,[2] (sometimes reported as Hnin An Daw (နှင်းအံဒေါ)[3]). She had a daughter named Tala Mi Thiri (also spelled Tala May Thiri), who became a queen of King Kue Na of Lan Na[3] (in the 1560s and the early 1570s).

She may have succeeded Mwei It as chief queen after her elder sister's death in the mid 1560s.[note 1]

Notes

1. The Razadarit Ayedawbon chronicle does not explicitly state the chief queens consort of Binnya U. However, based on the chronicle's ordering of queens and their issue (Pan Hla 2005: 47), and Mwei It's title Sanda Min Hla which was last worn by Queen Sanda Min Hla, the chief queen of three Martaban kings, Mwei It was likely the first chief queen. Hnin An Daung Mwei Kaw was listed second behind Mwei It. The chronicle does state that Binnya U's favorite queen was commoner Mwei Ma-Gu-Thauk, who was the mother of Baw Ngan-Mohn, the heir apparent.

References

1. Pan Hla 2005: 45
2. Pan Hla 2005: 47
3. Pan Hla 2005: 62

Bibliography

• Pan Hla, Nai (1968). Razadarit Ayedawbon (in Burmese) (8th printing, 2005 ed.). Yangon: Armanthit Sarpay.