Saw U of Myinsaing

For other people named Saw U, see Saw U (disambiguation).

Saw U စောဦး
Chief queen consort of Myinsaing
Tenure	17 December 1297 – 13 April 1310
Predecessor	new office
Successor	Saw Htut of Pinya as Vicereine of Myinsaing
Born	c. 1250s Pagan (Bagan)
Died	?
Spouse	Athinkhaya
Issue	?
House	Pagan
Father	Thihathu of Pagan?
Mother	?
Religion	Theravada Buddhism

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

Saw U (Burmese: စောဦး, pronounced [sɔ́ ʔú]) was the chief queen consort of King Athinkhaya of Myinsaing from 1297 to 1310.^[1] According to a contemporary inscription, she was a granddaughter of King Uzana of Pagan and Queen Thonlula.^{[2][note 1][3]}

Notes

1. Her father may have been Thihathu of Pagan, the only offspring of Uzana and Thonlula mentioned in the royal chronicles (although chronicles do not explicitly say that Thihathu was the only child of the royal couple.) If Thihathu was her father, who was executed probably between May and November 1256 per (Than Tun 1964: 134–135), she must have been born in or before 1257 at the latest.

References

1. Survey, Burma Archaeological (1921). A List of Inscriptions Found in Burma. Superintendent, Government Print., Burma.
2. Than Tun 1964: 277
3. Aung-Thwin, Michael A. (2017-05-31). Myanmar in the Fifteenth Century: A Tale of Two Kingdoms. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-7411-7.

Bibliography

• Royal Historical Commission of Burma (1832). Hmannan Yazawin (in Burmese). Vol. 1–3 (2003 ed.). Yangon: Ministry of Information, Myanmar.
• Than Tun (1964). Studies in Burmese History (in Burmese). Vol. 1. Yangon: Maha Dagon.

Saw U of Myinsaing Myinsaing Kingdom
Royal titles
New title	Chief queen consort of Myinsaing 17 December 1297 – 13 April 1310	Succeeded by Saw Htut as Vicereine