Minye Kyawhtin of Toungoo
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Minye Kyawhtin was a pretender to the Ava throne from 1426 to 1459. The eldest son of Crown Prince Minye Kyawswa, Minye Kyawhtin raised a long-running rebellion against King Mohnyin Thado and his succ
Remains of the outer walls of Ava today
Onbaung, present day Hsipaw (Thibaw)
Governor Minkhaung I represented as a nat (spirit)
Minye Kyawhtin of Pakhan
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Minye Kyawhtin was governor of Pakhan from 1413 to 1426. The youngest son of King Minkhaung I of Ava was a top pretender to the Ava throne during the succession crisis in 1425–1426, following the assa
Minye Kyawhtin of Toungoo
…were engineered by Queen Shin Bo-Me and Prince Min Nyo of Kale (r. 1425–1426), who seized the throne in November 1425. Kyawhtin and his uncle Prince Tarabya Minye Kyawhtin of Pakhan submitted to Nyo, who was the only son of King Tarabya of Ava (r. 1400) and a senior general in the military. But in May 1426 when Nyo was about to…
A statue depicting Queen Shin Saw Pu