Saw Taw Oo of Sagaing

Saw Taw Oo of Sagaing စောတော်ဦး
Queen of the Central Palace of Ava
Tenure	c. 1390s – April 1400
Predecessor	Saw Omma of Sagaing
Successor	Min Pyan of Ava
Queen of the Western Palace of Ava
Tenure	5 September 1367 – c. 1390s
Predecessor	new office
Successor	Shin Mi-Nauk
Born	c. 1353 Sagaing
Died	? Ava (Inwa)
Spouse	Swa Saw Ke
Issue	Soe Min Wimala Dewi[1]
Father	Minbyauk Thihapate
Mother	Soe Min Kodawgyi
Religion	Theravada Buddhism

In this Burmese name, Saw is an honorific, not a given name.

Saw Taw Oo (Burmese: စောတော်ဦး, pronounced [sɔ́ dɔ̀ ʔú]) was a queen consort of King Swa Saw Ke of Ava. She was the daughter of King Thihapate of Sagaing, a granddaughter of King Saw Yun, the founder of Sagaing, and a half-sister of King Thado Minbya, the founder of Ava. She was raised to be a queen of Swa Saw Ke with the title of Queen of the Central Palace, succeeding her half-sister Saw Omma. The queen was also given Pagan (Bagan) in fief.[2]

According to a contemporary inscription, the queen donated a monastery in Wetkyi-In, and dedicated paddy farmland to the monastery in October 1396.[a]

Ancestry

The following is her ancestry according to Hmannan. She was descended from Pagan and Pinya royalty. Her father's lineage is not reported except that he was not of royal blood and that he was a grandnephew of Queen Pwa Saw of Pagan.[4]

Ancestry of Queen Saw Taw Oo
8. Narathihapate 4. unknown 9. Yadanabon II of Pagan 2. Minbyauk Thihapate 10. unknown 5. unknown 11. unknown 1. Saw Taw Oo 12. Thihathu 6. Saw Yun 13. Yadanabon of Pinya 3. Soe Min Kodawgyi 14. Kyawswa of Pagan 7. Saw Hnaung of Sagaing 15. Saw Soe of Pagan

Notes

1. The dedication ceremony was held on Monday, the 5th waxing of Tazaungmon 758 ME.[3] The date can be conventionally translated as Thursday, 5 October 1396. If it was indeed on a Monday, the date may have been the 2nd waxing of Tazaungmon 758 ME (Monday, 2 October 1396). The Burmese numerals ၂ (2) and ၅ (5) have similar shapes, and can be misread/miscopied.

References

1. Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 436
2. Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 404
3. Taw, Forchhammer 1899: 30–31
4. Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 392

Bibliography

• Royal Historical Commission of Burma (2003) [1832]. Hmannan Yazawin (in Burmese). Vol. 1–3. Yangon: Ministry of Information, Myanmar.
• Taw, Sein Ko; Emanuel Forchhammer (1899). Inscriptions of Pagan, Pinya and Ava: Translation, with Notes. Rangoon: Archaeological Survey of India.

Saw Taw Oo of Sagaing Ava Kingdom Born: c. 1353 Died: c. 15th century
Royal titles
Preceded by Saw Omma of Sagaing	Queen of the Central Palace of Ava c. 1390s–1400	Succeeded by Min Pyan of Ava
New title	Queen of the Western Palace of Ava 1367–c. 1390s	Succeeded by Shin Mi-Nauk