Bagyidaw

Bagyidaw (literally Uncle Elder Royal , July 23rd, 1784 - Amarapura October 15th, 1846) was the seventh king of the Dynastie Konbaung of Burma. Grandson of the king Bodawpaya and wire of the prince who ordered the armies in Arakan in 1784, it succeeded his grandfather in 1819 and brought back his capital to Ava in 1823. He was détrôné in 1837.

Constructions

Prince of Sagaing in 1803, Bagyidaw married his cousin the princess Hsinbyume (Madam of the White elephant, grand-daughter of Bodawpaya, 1789-1812), but she died in layers at 23 years.

His royal wife Naked Nanmadaw made Me build in 1818 with Ava the monastery Mahâ Aung Mye; this building, more commonly called Me Naked Ok Kyaung ( Monastery of brick of Me Naked ), is unusual, because the traditional Burmese monasteries are built out of wood.

Wars

Bagyidaw took part in the invasion of Ayutthaya in 1808.

Diplomacy

John Crawfurd, the first English representative after the war, succeeds in obtaining neither a commercial treaty nor the exchange of diplomats between Ava and Calcutta. Its successor, Major Henry Burney, allured the king by his personality and could open an embassy. Its greater success was to regulate the dispute between the Manipur and Burma on the question of the valley of Kabaw in favor of the Burmeses; Manipur occupied the area since the end of the war with the tacit agreement of the Government of the Indies. Burney concludes from the examination of the files that the Burmese claim was justified. It does not succeed in néammoins obtaining an agreement on Tenasserim (which became for English plus a load that another thing), even when the Burmeses were informed that the Thai wished to recover the province, which had formerly belonged to them.

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