Saw U of Myinsaing
{{Other people|Saw U}}
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| name = Saw U
{{lang-my-Mymr|စောဦး}}
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| reign = 17 December 1297 – 13 April 1310
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| succession = Chief queen consort of Myinsaing
| predecessor = new office
| successor = Saw Htut of Pinya
as Vicereine of Myinsaing
| spouse = Athinkhaya
| issue = ?
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| house = Pagan
| father = Thihathu of Pagan?
| mother = ?
| birth_date = {{circa}} 1250s
| birth_place = Pagan (Bagan)
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| death_place = ?
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| religion = Theravada Buddhism
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{{Burmese name|Saw}}
Saw U ({{langx|my|စောဦး}}, {{IPA|my|sɔ́ ʔú|pron}}) was the chief queen consort of King Athinkhaya of Myinsaing from 1297 to 1310.{{Cite book |last=Survey |first=Burma Archaeological |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dHxEAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Saw+u%22+athinkhaya |title=A List of Inscriptions Found in Burma |date=1921 |publisher=Superintendent, Government Print., Burma |language=en}} According to a contemporary inscription, she was a granddaughter of King Uzana of Pagan and Queen Thonlula.Than Tun 1964: 277Her 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.{{Cite book |last=Aung-Thwin |first=Michael A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AF8EEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Saw+u%22+myinsaing&pg=PA317 |title=Myanmar in the Fifteenth Century: A Tale of Two Kingdoms |date=2017-05-31 |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |isbn=978-0-8248-7411-7 |language=en}}
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Bibliography
- {{cite book | author=Royal Historical Commission of Burma | author-link=Royal Historical Commission of Burma | title=Hmannan Yazawin | volume=1–3 | year=1832 | location=Yangon | language=Burmese | edition=2003 | publisher=Ministry of Information, Myanmar}}
- {{cite book | author=Than Tun | author-link=Than Tun | title=Studies in Burmese History | volume=1 | language=Burmese | location=Yangon | publisher=Maha Dagon | year=1964}}
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{{s-ttl|title=Chief queen consort of Myinsaing|years= 17 December 1297 – 13 April 1310}}
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{{Queens consort of Myinsaing–Pinya}}