Min Uti of Mohnyin
sawbwa of Mohnyin
Min Uti (Burmese: မင်းဥတည်, pronounced [mɪ́ɰ̃ ʔṵ dí]; c. 1427–1451) was sawbwa of Mohnyin for a few months in 1450–1451. A grandson of King Mohnyin Thado, Uti, apparently with Chinese support, took control of Mohnyin after the sudden death of his father Thihapate of Mohnyin, and revolted against his maternal uncle King Narapati I of Ava. His rebellion was quickly defeated, and he was executed in 1451.
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Min Uti was the eldest child of Gov. Thihapate of Pyinzi and Princess Shin Hla Myat. His personal name and titles are not known. (Min Uti appears to be an epithet, signifying his later allegiance to the Chinese.) He later moved to Mohnyin after his father was transferred to the northern state in 1439. But in 1442, his father sent Uti to the court of the new king Narapati as token of loyalty. He apparently returned to Mohnyin during the Chinese incursions in the 1440s, as he was in Mohnyin at the time of his father's death in 1450/51. He and the co-sawbwas of Mogaung—Tho Kyein Bwa and Tho Bok Bwa—revolted against Ava, apparently with Chinese support.
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