Shwetaungtet was the third king of Sagaing Kingdom

Sagaing Kingdom

The Sagaing Kingdom was a kingdom that ruled a part of central Burma from 1315 to 1364. The kingdom was the western half of the old Myinsaing Kingdom, which itself was one of many petty kingdoms that emerged after the fall of the Pagan Empire in 1287...

, who reigned from 1336 to 1340. He seized the Sagaing throne by arresting his father King Tarabya I

Tarabya I of Sagaing

Tarabya I or Tarabyagyi was the second king of Sagaing Kingdom from 1323 to 1336. He succeeded King Sawyun, his maternal half-brother, in April 1323. In 1336, he was brought put under arrest by his own son Shwetaungtet...

. Three years later, he was killed by Chief Minister Nandapangyan who wanted to place Kyaswa, the middle son of Sawyun

Sawyun

Athinhkaya Sawyun was the founder of the Sagaing Kingdom located in today's Sagaing Region, Burma . The eldest son of King Thihathu of Pinya, Sawyun, at age 15, set up a rival kingdom to his father's in 1315 after Thihathu appointed his adopted son Uzana I, son of the fallen king Kyawswa of Pagan...

, the founder of the kingdom, on the throne. After his death, his father the captive king was also killed by Nandapangyan.