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===Ancestry===
{{see also|Family of Bayinnaung}}
The future king Bayinnaung was born Ye Htut (ရဲထွတ်, {{IPA-my|jɛ́ tʰʊʔ|IPA}}) on 16 January 1516 to [[Mingyi Swe]] and [[Shin Myo Myat]]. His exact ancestry is unclear. No extant contemporary records, including ''[[Hanthawaddy Hsinbyushin Ayedawbon]]'', the extensive chronicle of the king's reign written two years before his death, mention his ancestry.<ref name=utk-102-103>Thaw Kaung 2010: 102–103</ref> It was only in 1724, some 143 years after the king's death, that ''[[Maha Yazawin]]'', the [[Burmese chronicles|official chronicle]] of the
According to ''Maha Yazawin'', he was born to a gentry family in [[Taungoo|Toungoo]] (Taungoo), then a former vassal state of the [[Ava Kingdom]]. He was descended from viceroys of Toungoo [[Tarabya of Toungoo|Tarabya]] (r. 1440–1446) and [[Minkhaung I of Toungoo|Minkhaung I]] (r. 1446–1451) on his father's side; and from King [[Thihathu]] of [[Pinya Kingdom|Pinya]] (r. 1310–1325) and his chief queen [[Mi Saw U]] of the [[Pagan Dynasty]] on his mother's side.<ref name=utk-118-119>Thaw Kaung 2010: 118–119</ref> Furthermore, Ye Htut was distantly related to then presiding ruler of Toungoo [[Mingyinyo|Mingyi Nyo]] and his son [[Tabinshwehti]] through their common ancestor, [[Tarabya I of Pakhan]].<ref group=note>(Hmannan Vol. 2 2003: 171): Mingyi Nyo's maternal grandmother Min Hla Htut, Princess of Pyakaung, was a daughter of Minye Kyawswa and Saw Min Hla, daughter of Tarabya of Pakhan.</ref> Later chronicles simply repeat ''Maha Yazawin''{{'s}} account.<ref name=utk-102-103/> In all, the chronicles (perhaps too) neatly tie his ancestry to all the previous main dynasties that existed in Upper Burma: the [[Ava Kingdom|Ava]], [[Sagaing Kingdom|Sagaing]], [[Myinsaing Kingdom|Myinsaing]]–[[Pinya Kingdom|Pinya]] and [[Pagan Kingdom|Pagan dynasties]].
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