Tarabya I or Tarabyagyi was the second 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...

 from 1323 to 1336. He succeeded King 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...

, his maternal half-brother, in April 1323. In 1336, he was brought put under arrest by his own son Shwetaungtet

Shwetaungtet

Shwetaungtet was the third king of Sagaing Kingdom, who reigned from 1336 to 1340. He seized the Sagaing throne by arresting his father King Tarabya I. Three years later, he was killed by Chief Minister Nandapangyan who wanted to place Kyaswa, the middle son of Sawyun, the founder of the kingdom,...

. After Shwetaungtet himself was assassinated in 1340 by Chief Minister Nandapangyan, the captive king was also killed.

Background

Tarabya was at least half-Shan, (and likely full Shan). His mother Yadanabon was an ethnic Shan. His father died soon after his birth. Tarabya was just over a year old when his mother remarried to Thihathu

Thihathu

Thihathu was a co-founder of Myinsaing Kingdom, and the founder of the Pinya Kingdom in today's central Burma . A former commander in Pagan Empire's military, Thihathu was the youngest and most ambitious of the Three Shan Brothers that founded Myinsaing Kingdom, which filled the void in central...

, and gave birth to Sawyun.