Soe Min was the eldest child and the only daughter of Queen
Saw Hnaung and King
Saw Yun of
Sagaing. She was born in 1322 or earlier. By 1335/36, she had been married to
Thado Hsinhtein of Tagaung, the scion of
Tagaung, a key vassal state of Sagaing. The couple, along with her three siblings, had to flee
Sagaing in 1335/36 when her half-cousin
Shwetaungtet seized the throne. They spent the next three years in
Mindon, deep inside the neighboring kingdom of
Pinya. The couple returned to Sagaing in 1339 when her eldest younger brother
Kyaswa became king of Sagaing. After giving birth to a son and two daughters in the following decade, the princess became increasingly involved in the affairs of the state. In 1351, during the reign of her youngest brother
Tarabya II, the princess and her husband met with her second cousin King
Kyawswa II of Pinya, and negotiated a truce. She soon became the kingmaker in February 1352 when Tarabya II died, leaving no heirs. Because her husband had also recently died, she married
Thihapate, a court official descended from the
Pagan royalty, who became the next king. She became Thihapate's chief queen; they had a daughter,
Saw Taw Oo. When the northern
Shan state of
Mong Mao (Maw) began raiding Sagaing territory, she sought a closer alliance with Pinya. In 1357/58, she sent her eldest daughter
Shin Saw Gyi to Kyawswa II in a
marriage of state, Her three daughters all became queens of
Swa Saw Ke who succeeded Thado Minbya. ==Ancestry==