father reign predecessor succession successor house mother birth_place death_date death_place religion birth_date coronation spouse issue article_title name type
thado minsaw 5 june 1819 -- 15 april 1837 bodawpaya king of burma prince of sagaing tharrawaddy konbaung min kye , princess of taungdwin amarapura 15 october 1846 amarapura theravada buddhism 23 july 1784 7 june 1819 nanmadaw me nu 5 sons , 5 daughters bagyidaw
 bagyidaw sagaing min ဘက တ monarch
bagyidaw

bagyidaw -lrb- , ; also known as sagaing min , ; 23 july 1784 -- 15 october 1846 -rrb- was the seventh king of konbaung dynasty of burma from 1819 until his abdication in 1837 .
prince of sagaing , as he was commonly known in his day , was selected as crown prince by his grandfather king bodawpaya in 1808 , and became king in 1819 after bodawpaya 's death .
bagyidaw moved the capital from amarapura back to ava in 1823 .
bagyidaw 's reign saw the first anglo-burmese war -lrb- 1824 -- 1826 -rrb- , which marked the beginning of the decline of the konbaung dynasty .
bagyidaw inherited the largest burmese empire , second only to king bayinnaung 's , but also one that shared ill-defined borders with british india .
in the years leading to the war , the king had been forced to suppress british supported rebellions in his grandfather 's western acquisitions -lrb- arakan , manipur and assam -rrb- , but unable to stem cross border raids from british territories and protectorates .
his ill-advised decision to allow the burmese army to pursue the rebels along the vaguely defined borders led to the war .
the longest and most expensive war in british indian history ended decisively in british favor , and the burmese had to accept british terms without discussion .
bagyidaw was forced to cede all of his grandfather 's western acquisitions , and tenasserim to the british , and pay a large indemnity of one million pounds sterling , leaving the country crippled for years .
devastated , bagyidaw held out hope for some years that tenasserim would be returned to him , and paid the balance of indemnity in 1832 at great sacrifice .
the british redrew the border with manipur in 1830 , but by 1833 , it was clear the british would not return any of the former territories .
the king became a recluse , and power devolved to his queen nanmadaw me nu and her brother .
his brother crown prince tharrawaddy raised a rebellion in february 1837 , and bagyidaw was forced to abdicate the throne in april 1837 .
king tharrawaddy executed queen me nu and her brother but placed his brother under house arrest .
bagyidaw died on 15 october 1846 , at age 62 .
