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Shin Bo-Me
Shin Bo-Me (Burmese: ရှင်ဘို့မယ်, [ʃɪ̀ɰ̃ bo̰ mɛ̀]; also spelled Shin Bo-Mai) was a principal queen of four kings of Ava in the early 15th century. BriefConsidered a great beauty, Bo-Me was the favorite queen of Minkhaung I.[2] She was also a half-niece of Minkhaung; her mother Saw Salaka Dewi and Minkhaung were half-siblings.[3] Although the Hmannan Yazawin chronicle states she became the chief queen of Minkhaung in 1407/08,[4] an inscription dated 28 February 1409 by Queen Shin Saw states that Saw was still the chief queen in 1409.[5] She was also the favorite queen of Minkhaung's son and successor Thihathu until Shin Saw Pu became queen. In August 1425, Bo-Me engineered the death of Thihathu by getting Le Than Bwa of Onbaung to assassinate the king. She might have married the successor, eight-year-old Min Hla.[note 1] Three months later, she poisoned the boy king and put her lover Prince Min Nyo on the Ava throne, and became the chief queen.[6] In May 1426, Nyo was overthrown by Gov. Thado of Mohnyin, who subsequently made Bo-Me a junior queen.[7] AncestryThe following is her ancestry as given in the Hmannan Yazawin chronicle.[note 2] She was a granddaughter of King Swa Saw Ke of Ava, and Kyawswa I of Pinya, and a great granddaughter of King Thihathu of Pinya and King Kyawswa of Pagan.
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