Piya Yaza Dewi

Piya Yaza Dewi ပီယရာဇာဒေဝီ
Chief queen consort of Hanthawaddy
Tenure	5 January 1384 – c. April 1392
Predecessor	Hnin An Daung
Successor	Yaza Dewi
Born	c. 1360s
Died	c. April 1392 Kason 754 ME Pegu (Bago)
Spouse	Ma Chut Sut (?–1383) Razadarit (1383–92)
Issue	none reported
House	Hanthawaddy Pegu
Religion	Theravada Buddhism

Piya Yaza Dewi (Burmese: ပီယရာဇာဒေဝီ, pronounced [pìja̰ jàzà dèwì]; c. 1360s – c. April 1392) was the chief queen consort of King Razadarit of Hanthawaddy Pegu from 1384 to 1392. Razadarit's reaffirmation of Piya Yaza Dewi as the chief queen in 1390 contributed to Queen Talamidaw's subsequent suicide.

According to the Razadarit Ayedawbon chronicle, the future queen was a commoner named Mwei Maneit (မွေ့ မနိတ်; "Miss Ruby"). She was a flower seller (or cooking oil seller). She was married to Ma Chut Sut (also known as Ma Aung Sut). One morning in c. May/June 1383, Prince Binnya Nwe who had started a rebellion against his father King Binnya U saw her at the outskirts of Dagon. The prince was taken by Mwei Maneit's beauty, and took her. Her husband fled to Pegu, and reported the news to Princess Maha Dewi, the prince's aunt and adoptive mother. It was not just the husband that reacted to the news badly. At Pegu, Prince Binnya Nwe's first wife, Talamidaw, who had just given birth to their first child Bawlawkyantaw, was deeply hurt.

At any rate, Maneit became a wife of the rebel prince in exile. About seven months later, she became the chief queen of the Kingdom of Hanthawaddy. On 2 January 1384, King Binnya U died. Two days later, the court accepted the rebel son Binnya Nwe, who had returned to Pegu, as king. The commoner was not Razadarit's first choice to be the chief queen. Nwe called for Talamidaw, who was also his half-sister and of royal birth, but she refused to see him. In response, Nwe held the coronation ceremony the next day, 5 January 1384, with Maneit as his chief queen. He took the title "Razadarit", and gave Maneit the title "Piya Yaza Dewi".

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