Kale Kye-Taung Nyo

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Kale Kyetaungnyo
ကလေးကျေးတောင်ညို
King of Ava
Reign1426 – 1427
PredecessorMinhlange
SuccessorMohnyin Thado
ConsortShin Bo-Me
Names
Maung Nyo
HousePinya
FatherTarabya
ReligionTheravada Buddhism

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Kale Kyetaungnyo (Burmese: ကလေးကျေးတောင်ညို; also Kalekyetaungnyo; d. 1427) was the seventh king of Ava who reigned for about a year from 1426 to 1427. He came to the Ava throne with the help of Queen Shin Bo-Me who had engineered the deaths of her husband King Thihathu and his infant son King Minhlange in 1426 to put her lover on the throne. After Minhlange was poisoned by Shin Bo-Me, Kyetaungnyo, a son of King Tarabya of Ava, and saopha (chief) of Kale in the Upper Chindwin region by the Chin Hills, came down to Ava with an army and seized the throne, and made Bo-Me his chief queen.[1]

Kyetaungnyo's reign was short. In 1427, the chief of Monhnyin, Mohnyin Thado, came down with his army to Ava. Kyetaungnyo and Shin Bo-Me fled in a single boat to Salin, and then started overland for the An Pass to Arakan. Near Shwesettaw (in today's Magwe Division), Kyetaungnyo sickened and died.[2][3] Queen Bo-Me, a dashing beauty who had already been queen of four kings Tarabya, Minkhaung I, Thihathu and Kyetaungnyo, was brought back and made a junior queen of Mohnyin Thado.[1]

Early life

Kyetaungnyo was born Maung Nyo to Prince Thihathu, the eldest son of King Swasawke. Maung Nyo was married to a daughter of Min Kye, the Saopha of Kale, a minor Shan State, which paid tribute to Ava. In 1401, Thihathu ascended the Ava throne with the title of Tarabya, and appointed Maung Nyo the new Saopha of Kale with the title Kyetaungnyo.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Maung Htin Aung (1967). "Ava against Pegu; Shan against Mon". A History of Burma. New York and London: Cambridge University Press. p. 93-94.
  2. ^ GE Harvey (1925). "Shan Migration (Ava)". History of Burma. Frank Cass & Co. Ltd. p. 96.
  3. ^ Lt. Gen. Sir Arthur P. Phayre (1883). History of Burma (1967 ed.). London: Susil Gupta. pp. 82–83.
  4. ^ Jon Fernquest (Autumn 2006). "Crucible of War: Burma and the Ming in the Tai Frontier Zone (1382-1454)" (PDF). SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research. 4 (2): 24.
Kale Kye-Taung Nyo
Born:  ? Died: 1427
Regnal titles
Preceded by King of Ava
1426 – 1427
Succeeded by
Royal titles
Preceded by
Min Kye
Saopha of Kale
1401 – 1426
Succeeded by