Mahachakrabarti regains control of Ayutthaya in 1568…
1568 CE
Mahachakrabarti regains control of Ayutthaya in 1568 after his son Mahindra fails to recapture Siam’s northern provinces from the Burmese.
Mahachakrabarti’s son-in, Maha Dhammaraja, “Lord of the White Elephant,” supports the Burmese, resulting in his daughter being held hostage by her maternal grandfather, the king.
Bayinnaung, in response to this hostage-taking of his granddaughter, sends a huge army into Siam, where it lays siege to Ayutthaya.