father house death_date mother death_place religion birth_date article_title name type
nyaungyan toungoo 27 august 1648 khin hpone myat ava -lrb- inwa -rrb- theravada buddhism 17 june 1584 thalun
 thalun monarch
thalun

thalun -lrb- , ; 17 june 1584 -- 27 august 1648 -rrb- was the eighth king of toungoo dynasty of burma -lrb- myanmar -rrb- .
during his 19-year reign , thalun successfully rebuilt the war-torn country which had been under constant warfare for nearly a century since the 1530s .
thalun instituted many administrative reforms and rebuilt the economy of the kingdom .
in 1608 , anaukpetlun captured prome and made thalun the governor of prome .
in 1628 , anaukpetlun was murdered by his own son minyedeippa who made himself king .
thalun was then on his campaigns against the shans at kengtung with his brother minyekyawswa ii , the governor of ava .
however , the death of anaukpetlun forced the two to return to pegu to claim the throne from the unlawful king and to counter the opportunistic arakanese invasions .
thalun became the center of rallying against minyedaikpa and was proclaimed the crown prince .
in 1629 , thalun and minyekyawswa were able to take pegu and executed minyedeippa .
at pegu , there was an assassination attempt by a mon on king thalun , which resulted in the massacre of the mons .
thalun fought a three-year campaign against lanna , finally subjugating them in 1632 .
in 1634 , thalun moved the capital to ava and crowned himself king of ava and made his brother minyekyawswa crown prince , maha uparaja .
thalun then concentrated on building pagodas and other works of merit .
however , minyekyawswa died on 18 august 1647 .
thalun then made his own son pindale as the crown prince .
the son of minyekyawswa who wanted the crown prince title for himself staged a rebellion .
the palace was sacked and thalun fled to sagaing .
however , the rebellion was soon put down and the conspirators were burnt alive .
thalun died on 19 october 1648 , succeeded by his son pindale .
