Hsinbyumashin

Hsinbyumashin
Queen of the Central Palace
Tenure 26 March 1853 - 1 October 1878
Coronation 1855
Predecessor
  • Thiri Ti Lawka Atula Yadana Dewi
  • Thiri Thu Yadana Mingala Dewi
Successor None
Born 22 November 1821
Amarapura
Died 26 February 1900 (1900-02-27) (aged 78)
Rangoon, British Burma
Burial Mandalay Palace
Spouse King Mindon Min
Issue
Regnal name
Sīripavaratiloka Mahārājindādhipati Padumaratanādevī
(သီရိပဝရတိလောက မဟာရာဇိန္ဒာဓိပတိ ပဒုမရတနာဒေဝီ)
House Konbaung
Father Bagyidaw (Sagaing Min)
Mother Nanmadaw Me Nu
Religion Theravada Buddhism

Hsinbyumashin (Burmese: ဆင်ဖြူမရှင်) was a senior queen of King Mindon Min during the Konbaung dynasty. She was born Princess Supayagale c. 1821, the daughter of King Bagyidaw and his consort Nanmadaw Me Nu.[1]

She was wedded to Mindon Min, the penultimate king, who made her the high-ranking "Queen of the Central Palace" (အလယ်နန်းမတော်မိဖုရားကြီး).[2] Her full regnal title upon ascending the throne was Sīripavaratiloka Mahārājindādhipati Padumaratanādevī (သီရိပဝရတိလောက မဟာရာဇိန္ဒာဓိပတိ ပဒုမရတနာဒေဝီ). On 25 November 1877, she received the title Hsinbyumashin, which translates to "mistress of the white elephants," upon receiving a white elephant named Sīrimahāsubhatta from King Mindon.[3][4]

The ambitious Hsinbyumashin, after placing Thibaw on the throne, offered her oldest daughter Supayagyi, to be his queen. During the royal aggamahesi coronation, Supayalat pushed in next to her sister to be anointed queen at the same time, breaking ancient custom.

Exile

The Konbaung dynasty reign lasted just seven years when Thibaw Min was defeated in the Third Anglo-Burmese War and forced to abdicate by the British in 1885. On 25 November 1885, the royal family were taken away in a covered carriage, leaving Mandalay Palace by the southern gate of the walled city along the streets lined by British soldiers and their wailing subjects, to the River Irrawaddy where a steamboat called Thuriya (Sun) awaited. Hsinbyumashin and her daughter, Supayagyi, were sent to Tavoy (now Dawei).[5] She died in Rangoon, British Burma on 26 February 1900.[6] Her remains were interred at the Mandalay Palace enclosure (see Konbaung tombs).

See also

References

  1. ↑ Shah, Sudha (2012-06-14). The King In Exile : The Fall Of The Royal Family Of Burma. Harper Collins. ISBN 9789350295984.
  2. ↑ Yi, Ma Yi (1965/03). "Burmese Sources for the History of the Konbaung Period 1752–1885*". Journal of Southeast Asian History. 6 (1): 48–66. doi:10.1017/S0217781100002477. ISSN 0217-7811. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ↑ Latt, Tin Moe (2007). "Myanmar women in the traditional society (1752-1885)".
  4. ↑ Tun, Than. "Chronology of Mandalay" (PDF).
  5. ↑ "Forty Years in Burma, by John Ebenezer Marks". anglicanhistory.org. Retrieved 2018-10-04.
  6. ↑ Yi, Khin (2018-05-31). The Dobama Movement in Burma (1930–1938). Cornell University Press. ISBN 9781501719547.
Hsinbyumashin
Royal titles
Preceded by
Thiri Ti Lawka Atula Yadana Dewi
Thiri Thu Yadana Mingala Dewi		 Queen of the Central Palace of Burma
26 July 1855 - 1 October 1878		 -
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