Magway Mibaya

Thiri Mahar Thu Mingalar Sandar Dewi (Burmese: သီရိမဟာ သုမင်္ဂလာ စန္ဒာဒေဝီ; Pali: Sīrimahā sumaṅgalā candādevī), commonly known as Magway Mibaya (Burmese: မကွေးမိဖုရား), was a senior queen consort of King Mindon during the late Konbaung dynasty.[1]

Magway Mibaya
Magway Mibaya
Myosa of Magway
Tenure	1854–?
Princess of Taungtha
King	King Tharrawaddy
Born	Khin Min Kauk unknown Ava
Died	1888
Spouse	Mindon Min
Issue	Mingin Supaya Pyinzi Supaya
Regnal name Thiri Mahar Thu Mingalar Sandar Dewi
House	Konbaung
Father	Tharrawaddy Min
Mother	Kyapin Mibaya
Religion	Theravada Buddhism

She was a daughter of King Tharrawaddy and his consort Kyapin Mibaya. She was a Princess of Taungtha during the reign of her father.[2] Being a half-sister of King Mindon, she was promoted to a Nanzwe Mibaya[note 1] and received the appanage of Magway when he ascended the throne.[2]

King Mindon and Magway Mibaya gave birth to Mingin Supaya and Pyinzi Supaya.[3][4]

She is not compatible with the Queen of the Central Palace Hsinbyumashin. After granting permission from King Mindon, to avoid the beset caused by Hsinbyumashin faction in the palace, she was relinquished her insignia of Mibaya to leave the palace and married an ordinary merchant.[5]

Notes

1. King Mindon created a special position called Nanzwe Mibaya for his four queens– Yinge Mibaya, Laungshe Mibaya, Magway Mibaya and Seindon Mibaya. It's between Nanya Mibaya (first rank) and Ahsaungya Mibaya (second rank).

References

1. တင် (ဦး), မောင်မောင် (1967). ကုန်းဘောင်ဆက် မဟာရာဇဝင်တော်ကြီး (in Burmese). လယ်တီမဏ္ဍိုင်ပုံနှိပ်တိုက်.
2. ကြီး), ဦးရာကျော် (စာရေးတော် (1968). မြန်မာမဟာမင်္ဂလာ မင်းခမ်းတော် (in Burmese). ပုည စာအုပ်တိုက်.
3. တင် (ဦး), မောင်မောင် (2004). ကုန်းဘောင်ဆက် မဟာရာဇဝင်တော်ကြီး (in Burmese). လောကစာပေ.
4. လှ, တိုး (2004). နှစ်ဆယ်ရာစု၏ မဟာလူသား: အရှင် ဝိစိတ္တသာရာဘိဝံသ, တိပိဋကဓရ ဓမ္မဘဏ္ဍာဂါရိက (in Burmese). Myanmar Historical Commission.
5. "မိဖုရား ၊ ဝန်ကြီးနှင့် တရားသူကြီးများ". HapEye. 3 June 2020.

See also

• Konbaung dynasty
• List of Burmese consorts