Kale Kyetaungnyo was the seventh king of Ava

Ava Kingdom

The Ava Kingdom was the dominant kingdom that ruled upper Burma from 1364 to 1555. Founded in 1364, the kingdom was the successor state to the petty kingdoms that had ruled central Burma since the collapse of Pagan Empire in the late 13th century...

 who reigned for seven months from 1426 to 1427. He came to the Ava throne with the help of Queen Shin Bo-Me

Shin Bo-Me

Shin Bo-Me was queen to five consecutive kings of Ava. The ethnic Shan queen was considered a great beauty. She was the favorite and chief queen of Minkhaung I. In 1426, she engineered the death of the next two kings Thihathu and Minhlange. She personally poisoned an 8-year-old Minhlange and put...

 who had engineered the deaths of her husband King Thihathu and his eight-year-old son King Minhlange

Minhlange

Minhlange was the sixth king of Ava for three months in 1426. Minhlange was just about nine when he was made king. His father King Thihathu had been killed in an ambush by raiders from the Shan State of Hsipaw...

 in 1426 to put her lover on the throne. After Minhlange was poisoned by Shin Bo-Me, Kyetaungnyo, a son of King Tarabya of Ava

Tarabya of Ava

Tarabya was the third king of Ava, who reigned for seven months in 1401. Tarabya was crown prince during his father King Swasawke's reign, and ascended in January 1401 . But he was assassinated seven months into his rule by his one-time tutor, Nga Nauk Hsan, the governor of Tagaung...

, and saopha

Saopha

Saopha, Chaofa, or Sawbwa was a royal title used by the rulers of the Shan States of Myanmar . The word means "king" in the Shan and Tai languages...

 (chief) of Kale in the Upper Chindwin

Chindwin River

The Chindwin River is a river in Burma , and the largest tributary of the country's chief river the Ayeyarwady . It flows entirely within Burma and is known as Ning-thi to the Manipuris.-Source:...

 region by the Chin Hills

Chin Hills

The Chin Hills are a range of mountains in Chin State, northwestern Burma , that extends northward into India's Manipur state. They are part of the Arakan Mountain Range . The highest peak in the Chin Hills is Nat Ma Taung, or Khonumthung , in southern Chin State, which reaches 3,053 meters...

, came down to Ava with an army and seized the throne, and made Bo-Me his chief queen.

Kyetaungnyo's reign was short. In 1427, the chief of Monhnyin, Mohnyin Thado

Mohnyin Thado

Mohnyin Thado was the eighth king of Ava who reigned from 1427 to 1440. The ethnic Burman saopha of Mohnyin came to power after overthrowing King Kale Kyetaungnyo and his queen Shin Bo-Me in 1427. His reign marks the plateauing of Ava's power...

, came down with his army to Ava. Kyetaungnyo and Shin Bo-Me fled in a single boat to Salin

Salin

Salin is a town of Minbu District in the Magway Division of Myanmar....

, and then started overland for the An Pass to Arakan

Rakhine State

Rakhine State is a Burmese state. Situated on the western coast, it is bordered by Chin State in the north, Magway Region, Bago Region and Ayeyarwady Region in the east, the Bay of Bengal to the west, and the Chittagong Division of Bangladesh to the northwest. It is located approximately between...

. Near Shwesettaw

Shwesettaw Wildlife Reserve

Shwesettaw Wildlife Reserve is a wildlife reserve of Burma. It is located in Magway Division. It occupies an area of and was established in 1985.-References:*...

 (in today's Magwe Division), Kyetaungnyo sickened and died. Queen Bo-Me, a dashing beauty who had already been queen of four kings Tarabya

Tarabya of Ava

Tarabya was the third king of Ava, who reigned for seven months in 1401. Tarabya was crown prince during his father King Swasawke's reign, and ascended in January 1401 . But he was assassinated seven months into his rule by his one-time tutor, Nga Nauk Hsan, the governor of Tagaung...

, Minkhaung I

Minkhaung I

Minkhaung I of Ava was the fourth king of Ava from 1401 to 1422. Minkhaung is best remembered in Burmese history for his epic struggles against King Razadarit of Hanthawaddy Pegu in the Forty Years' War , and for being the father of Crown Prince Minyekyawswa, who did most of the fighting.Minkhaung...

, Thihathu and Kyetaungnyo, was brought back and made a junior queen of Mohnyin Thado.

Early life

Kyetaungnyo was born Maung Nyo to Prince Thihathu (later King Tarabya

Tarabya of Ava

Tarabya was the third king of Ava, who reigned for seven months in 1401. Tarabya was crown prince during his father King Swasawke's reign, and ascended in January 1401 . But he was assassinated seven months into his rule by his one-time tutor, Nga Nauk Hsan, the governor of Tagaung...

, the eldest son of King Swasawke

Swasawke

Swasawke was the second king of Ava, who reigned from 1368 to 1400. When he was elected by the ministers to succeed King Thadominbya who left no heir, Swasawke took over a kingdom that was less than four years old, and still faced external and internal threats...

. Maung Nyo was married to a daughter of Min Kye, the Saopha of Kale, a minor Shan State, which paid tribute to Ava. In 1401, Thihathu ascended the Ava throne with the title of Tarabya

Tarabya of Ava

Tarabya was the third king of Ava, who reigned for seven months in 1401. Tarabya was crown prince during his father King Swasawke's reign, and ascended in January 1401 . But he was assassinated seven months into his rule by his one-time tutor, Nga Nauk Hsan, the governor of Tagaung...

, and appointed Maung Nyo the new Saopha of Kale with the title Kyetaungnyo tɕé tàuɴ ɲjò.