Saw Lat of Pagan

Saw Lat
စောလတ်
Queen of the Northern Palace
Tenure1171 – 1190s?
PredecessorMyauk Pyinthe
SuccessorMyauk Pyinthe II (Sithu II)
Bornc. 1140s
Pagan (Bagan)
Diedc. 1190s
Pagan
SpouseNaratheinkha (c. 1160s–1174)
Sithu II (1174–1190s?)
Issueone daughter (by Naratheinkha)
HousePagan
FatherYazathu
MotherEindawthe
ReligionTheravada Buddhism

Saw Lat (Burmese: စောလတ်, pronounced [sɔ́ laʔ]) was a queen consort of kings Naratheinkha and Sithu II of the Pagan Dynasty of Myanmar (Burma).[1]

Royal chronicles do not agree on her ancestry. Maha Yazawin (1724) says she was the younger of the two daughters of Yazathu and Eindawthe, niece of queens Taung Pyinthe and Khin U.[2] But Yazawin Thit (1798) says she was a younger sister of Queen Min Aung Myat.[3] Hmannan Yazawin (1832) sides with Maha Yazawin's account.[4]

The queen had a daughter with Naratheinkha but their child died in early 1170s during the reign of Naratheinkha.[5] She died during the reign of Sithu II (after the death of Queen Weluwaddy in 1186), and was succeeded by another queen as the Queen of the Northern Palace.[6]

  1. ^ Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 312, 317
  2. ^ Maha Yazawin Vol. 1 2006: 207
  3. ^ Yazawin Thit Vol. 1 2012: 124
  4. ^ Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 312
  5. ^ Hmannan Vol. 1 2003: 317
  6. ^ Yazawin Thit Vol. 1 2012: 133