YAWNGHWE (Nyaungwe) (Shan State)
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| TITLE: Saopha (King),
Mahadevi (Queen) |
Revenue: xx |
Accession: |
| State: Burma |
Dynasty: xx |
Religion: Buddhist |
| Area: 3,605 km2 |
POPULATION:
126,513 |
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| Present HEAD OF HOUSE: HRH Saopha Sao HSÖ KHAN
PHA Kambawsarahta Thiri Pawaramahawuntha Thudamaraza,
F.I.A.S.R. , Sawbwa of Yawnghwe since 1998. (Canada) |
born 15th April 1938 in Yaunghwe State, British Burma;
he is a Consulting Geologist, educated at a local school
in Yaunghwe, at convents in Kalaw and Hsenwi, and later at
The Doon School, Dehra Dun, India, 1949/1954; he studied
for two years at Rangoon University; attended the Bell
School of Languages at Cambridge, England, and the
Cambridgeshire Technical College; he graduated in 1964
from the University of Keele, England with a B.A. (Hons.)
in Geology and Political Institutions; after graduation he
was hired as a geologist in England, and went prospecting
for diamonds in the Ivory Coast, West Africa, for the
Diamond Corporation Limited; he transferred to Hudson Bay
Mining and Smelting Company Limited in 1966; he joined
Mattagami Lake Mines as a Senior Exploration Geologist in
1970; became Senior Project Geologist in charge of all
explorations in western Canada in 1972; he opened the
Western Exploration Office for Mattagami Lake Mines in
Edmonton in 1975; became an independent geological
consultant in 1976; he sought the Liberal nomination in
the federal riding of Elk Island in April 1993; he is a
founding member and past President of Burma Watch
International; member of a number of professional
societies, including A.P.E.G.G.A.; Association of
Exploration Geochemists; Fellow of the I.A.P.S.R.; Fellow
of the Geological Association of Canada, and former
member, Association of Alberta Petroleum Geologists;
married 1976, Rosemary Catherine Otte, and has issue, four
children.
- Rebecca Sanda Devi
- Haŏ Shwe Thaike [Simon Yawnghwe], born 12th June
1977.
- Jessica Ying Sita Ratan Hseng Hkam [Jessica
Yawnghwe], born 10th July 1979.
- Hsŏ Kham Serk, born 5th November 1981.
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Predecessors and Short History:
The Yaunghwe royal family claims descent from King
Beingyayett 661/600 BC, who ruled in what is now northern
Burma and southwestern China. In 1359, Saopha Si Hseng
Hpa, established his capital at Yawnghwe (ritual name was
Kambosarattha). In 1850, Sao Suu Deva, Crown Prince of
Yawnghwe, was assassinated by a rival claimant. King
Mindon of Burma helped Prince Deva's son, Sao Maung, to
regain the throne of Yawnghwe. The state ranks fourth in
order of precedence, at the time of the British annexation
of the Shan States. Burma became independent on 4th
January 1948. Rulers were...
- Saopha SI HSENG HPA, 1st Sawbwa of Yawnghwe
1359/1434
- Saopha HSO HSENG
HPA, 2nd Sawbwa of Yawnghwe 1434/14x7
- Saopha HSO HUNG HPA,
3rd Sawbwa of Yawnghwe 14x7/1518
- Saopha HSO YAWK HPA,
4th Sawbwa of Yawnghwe 1518/1557
- Saopha SAO MAW HKAM,
5th Sawbwa of Yawnghwe 1557/1574
- Saopha KANH HAM HPA,
6th Sawbwa of Yawnghwe 1574/1608
- ADMINISTRATOR,
Mahadevi Nang Nawn Pe 1608/1615 (first time)
- Saopha SAO HTOI,
7th Sawbwa of Yawnghwe 1608/1615
- ADMINISTRATOR,
Mahadevi Nang Nawn Pe 1615/1646 (second time), she
died 1646.
- Saopha SAO KANG HOM
HPA, 8th Sawbwa of Yawnghwe 1658/1663
- Saopha HSU WA,
9th Sawbwa of Yawnghwe 1663/1687
- Saopha KYUNDAUNG SA,
10th Sawbwa of Yawnghwe 1687/1695
- Saopha HKAM LENG,
11th Sawbwa of Yawnghwe 1695/1733
- Saopha HTAWK SHA SA,
12th Sawbwa of Yawnghwe 1733/1737
- Saopha HSI TON SA,
13th Sawbwa of Yawnghwe 1737/1746
- Saopha HKE HSA WA,
14th Sawbwa of Yawnghwe 1746/1758
- Saopha NAW MONG,
15th Sawbwa of Yawnghwe in 1758
- Saopha YAWT HKAM,
16th Sawbwa of Yawnghwe 1758/1761
- Saopha HPONG HPA KA
SA, 17th Sawbwa of Yawnghwe 1761/1762
- Saopha SAO YUN, 18th Sawbwa of Yawnghwe
1762/1815
- Saopha SAO SE U I, 19th Sawbwa of Yawnghwe
1815/1818 or 1815/1852 as Sao U
- Saopha NAW MONG II 1818/1821
- Saopha SAO SE U II 1821/1852
- Saopha SAO SO HOM, 20th Sawbwa of Yawnghwe
1852/1858, married and had issue. He was assasinated
in 1858.
- Saopha Sir Sao Maung (qv)
- Saopha Sao On (qv)
- REGENT, Sao
Sa Hpa 1858/1864, he was deposed and fled
- Saopha Sir SAO
MAUNG Kambawsarahta Thiri Pawaramahawuntha
Thudamaraza K.C.I.E., 21st Sawbwa of Yawnghwe
1864/1885 (first time)
- Saopha SAO CHIT SU,
22nd Sawbwa of Yawnghwe 1885/1889 (usurper)
- Saopha SAO ON
Kambawsarahta Thiri Pawaramahawuntha Thudamaraza,
?23rd Sawbwa of Yawnghwe 1889/1897
- Saopha Sir SAO MAUNG Kambawsarahta Thiri
Pawaramahawuntha Thudamaraza K.C.I.E., Sawbwa
of Yawnghwe 1897/1926, born 1847/1848, C.I.E.
[cr.1908], K.C.I.E. [cr.1916], married and had issue.
He died in December 1926 (1927).
- Saopha Sao Shwe Thaik Kambawsarahta Thiri
Pawaramahawuntha Thudamaraza (qv)
- Agga Maha Thray
Sithu Agga Maha Thiri Thudhamma Saopha SAO SHWE
THAIK Kambawsarahta Thiri Pawaramahawuntha
Thudamaraza, 23rd Sawbwa of Yaunghwe
1926/1962, born October 1896 in Yawnghwe, educated at
the Shan Chiefs School in Taunggyi; served with the
British military during WWI, and later served in the
Northeast Frontier Service 1920/1923, and later served
1939/1942 during WWII; 1st President of the democratic
and newly independent Union of Burma 1948/1952; Member
and President of the Constituant Assembly of the Union
of Burma, Speaker of the House of Nationalities till
1962, member of the Council of Sawbwas of the
Federated Shan States, signer of the 1947 Panglong
Agreement; married five wives, including, (a) Daw Mya
Win, married (b), Daw Nyunt May, married (c), Mahadevi
Sao Nang Hearn Kham of Hsenwi, born May 1916 in Hsenwi
Haw, (a northern Shan State), daughter of Saopha Khun
Sam Tun Oo of Hsenwi North,
First Lady of Burma 1948/1952, Member of Parliament
1956/1960 during the U Nu’s Union government’s period;
after her husband was arrested she fled to Thailand in
1963, where she fought for the liberation of the Shan
State, she died 17th January 2003 in Canada, and had
issue, ten children. He died 21st November 1962 in
Rangoon, under suspicious circumstances whilst in
detention.
- Saopha Sao Hseng Hpa Kambawsarahta Thiri
Pawaramahawuntha Thudamaraza (qv)
- Sao Hseng Ong, born in January 1926, married Sao
Noan Hom, sister (daughter?) of Saopha Sao Khun So,
Sawbwa of Lawksawk, and had issue, one son and two
daughters.
- Nang
Mona Yawnghwe
- Nang
Caroline Yawnghwe
- Hkun
Victor Yawnghwe
- Sao Sanda Yawnghwe [Mrs. Sanda Simms], born June
1928, a former journalist, who used to work as
newsreader and commentator with the Burma
Broadcasting Service (BBS), author of The Moon
Princess: Memories of the Shan States, River
Books London, and (with her husband) of The
Kingdom of Laos; married Peter Simms, author.
- HRH Saopha Hsö Khan Pha Kambawsarahta Thiri
Pawaramahawuntha Thudamaraza (qv)
- Dr. Chao Tzang Yawnghwe [Eugene Thaik], B.A.,
M.A.(Rangoon), Ph.D.(British Columbia), born 26th
April 1939, educated at Rangoon University,
graduating in 1959; then lecturer at Rangoon
University till 1962; he co-founded the Shan State
Army in 1971 (a Shan resistance group); he settled
in Chang Mai and later in Canada in 1985; he taught
at British Columbia University in Canada; at the
time of his death he was principal advisor to
several dissident movements, including the Shan
Democratic Union and the Ethnic National Council;
author of The Shan of Burma : memoirs of a Shan
exile / Chao Tzang Yawnghwe (alias Eugene Thaike),
1987, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies,
Singapore; married Nu Nu Myint of Kengtung, and had
issue. He died 2004 in Vancouver, Canada.
- Sao Tzang Aun, born 1940, died 1943.
- Sao Sita Naw Hseng Lao aka Ying Yawnghwe (f), born 1944.
- Sao Ying Haymar (f), born 1944.
- Sao Hso Hom Hpa aka
Mye Thaik, born 1945, killed by Burmese Government
troops on 2nd March 1962, aged 17.
- Sao Stanley Papu, born 1946.
- Sao Hso Harn Hpa aka Harn Yawnghwe, born 15th April
1948, initially educated in Burma, then studied in
Thailand and later Canada, where he earned a
bachelor’s degree and an MBA from McGill University;
editor of Burma Alert, a monthly news digest;
advisor to Dr. Sein Win, Prime Minister of the
National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma;
and managing director of the Democratic Voice of
Burma, Director of the Euro-Burma Office in
Brussels, Belgium from February 1997; married and
has issue, two children. (Brussels, Belgium)
- Sao Ratna Hseng Leun (f), born 1950.
- HRH Saopha SAO
HSENG HPA Kambawsarahta Thiri Pawaramahawuntha
Thudamaraza, 24th Sawbwa of Yaunghwe
1962/1998, married Sao Shwe Ohn, and had issue. He
died 1998.
- HRH Saopha HSÖ
KHAN PHA Kambawsarahta Thiri Pawaramahawuntha
Thudamaraza, 25th Sawbwa of Yaunghwe (see
above)
- Unknown
- Princess (name
unknown), married HM King Pagan Min, King
of Burma.
- Sao Suu Deva, Kye-Mong (Crown Prince) of Yawnghwe,
married and had issue. He was killed by a
half-brother.
- Saopha Sir Sao Maung, he opposed the Limbin
Confederacy and employed many of King Thibaw Min's
ex-Ministers in the Yawnghwe Administration after
Thibaw went into exile.
- http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/states/burma/yawnghwe.html
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