Mwei Ohn-Naung

For other people named Yaza Dewi, see Yaza Dewi (disambiguation).

Yaza Dewi Mwei Ohn-Naung ရာဇာဒေဝီ မွေ့ အုန်နောင်
Chief queen consort of Hanthawaddy
Tenure	c. April 1392 – c. 1421
Predecessor	Piya Yaza Dewi
Successor	unknown
Spouse	Razadarit
House	Hanthawaddy Pegu
Father	Saw Ye-Bein
Religion	Theravada Buddhism

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

Yaza Dewi Mwei Ohn-Naung (Burmese: ရာဇာဒေဝီ မွေ့ အုန်နောင်, pronounced [jàzà dèwì mwḛ ʔòɴ nàʊɴ]) was the chief queen consort of King Razadarit of Hanthawaddy Pegu from 1392 to 1421.

Brief

According to the Razadarit Ayedawbon chronicle, the queen was the eldest daughter of Saw Ye-Bein, a senior minister at the Hanthawaddy court. Her personal name was Mwei Ohn-Naung (မွေ့ အုန်နောင်). She had two younger sisters, Mwei Auk and Mi U-Si In April 1392, she was raised as the chief queen of King Razadarit, with the title of Yaza Dewi (Pali: Rājadevī). Her two sisters were also raised as queens at the same ceremony.

She and her sisters were first cousins once removed of the king. Their father was a first cousin of Razadarit. Their paternal grandfather Binnya Thein was a noble from Chiang Mai who after a disagreement with the king of Chiang Mai had sought refuge at the court of King Binnya U. Their paternal grandmother was Tala Saw Lun, a daughter of King Saw Zein.

Ancestry

Ancestry of Queen Yaza Dewi
8. unnamed 4. Binnya Thein of Chiang Mai 9. unnamed 2. Saw Ye-Bein 10. Saw Zein 5. Tala Saw Lun 11. unnamed 1. Mwei Ohn-Naung 12. unnamed 6. unnamed 13. unnamed 3. unnamed 14. unnamed 7. unnamed 15. unnamed

Bibliography

• Pan Hla, Nai (1968). Razadarit Ayedawbon (in Burmese) (8th printing, 2005 ed.). Yangon: Armanthit Sarpay.