Min Khin Saw (Burmese: မင်းခင်စော, pronounced[mɪ́ɴkʰɪ̀ɴsɔ́]) was the chief queen consort of the break-away kingdom of Toungoo (Taungoo) from 1597 to 1609. She was also the chief queen of Toungoo from 1584 to 1597 when Toungoo was a vassal state of Toungoo Empire.[1] From 1612 onwards, the mother of Natshinnaung spent her last years as a dowager queen in Pinya (near Ava (Inwa).[2]
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Min Khin Saw was the only child born from the union of Queen Sanda Dewi and King Bayinnaung. She descended from the Ava royal line from her mother's side. She married her half-cousin Minye Kyawhtin, governor of Tharrawaddy (Thayawadi), on 1 May 1571.[3]
Minye Thihathu III of Toungoo, Governor of Badon (1612–?)[4]
Minye Kyawhtin II of Toungoo, Governor of Taungdwingyi (1612–?)[4]
Min Khin Saw became a dowager queen in 1609 when her husband died. She fled Toungoo in August 1612[note 3] when the combined forces of Portuguese Syriam (Thanlyin) and Martaban (Mottama) attacked Toungoo. King Anaukpetlun gave her a two-story house in Pinya (near Ava) with a retinue of servants.[2]
^(Maha Yazawin Vol. 3 2006: 148): Natshinnaung did not have a queen after the death of Yaza Datu Kalaya. He did not raise any of his concubines to queen. And since Natshinnaung was the last sovereign king of Toungoo, the office of Chief Queen of Toungoo ended with Min Khin Saw.
^Sanda Dewi became Bayinnaung's queen only in April 1553. Since she got married in 1570, she was likely born in the mid 1550s.
^(Maha Yazawin Vol. 3 2006: 144): Wagaung 974 ME = 28 July to 25 August 1612
