- Rajah Lakandula
Rajah LakandulaFact|date=February 2008 ) or Lakan Dula ("Lakan" is the Kapampangan equivalent of Rajah, derived from borrowed Mongol term KhanFact|date=October 2007) was the native
tribal chief of Tundun (a large area covering most of what is now present-dayMetro Manila ), when the Spanish colonization of thePhilippine Islands had began. He ruled a community of nativeMuslim people who lived north of thePasig River .He was one of three Muslim chieftains in the Manila area during the arrival of the Spanish
conquistadors led byMartín de Goiti andJuan de Salcedo in 1570. He defended MayniladFact|date=February 2008 ) from the invading Spaniards and was defeated.Descendants
In 1587 Magat Salamat, one of the children of Lakan Dula, and Augustin de Legazpi, Lakan Dula's nephew, and the chiefs of modern Tondo, Pandacan,
Marikina ,Candaba ,Navotas andBulacan were executed for secretly conspiring to revolt against the Spanish settlements.A
mestizo by the name of David Dula y Goiti, a grandson of Lakan Dula with a Spanish mother [http://northern_samar.totallyexplained.com/] escaped the persecution of the descendants of Lakan Dula by settling in Isla de Batag,Northern Samar and settled in the placed now called Candawid. Due to his hatred to the Spaniards, he dropped the name Goiti in his surname and adopted a new name David Dulay [http://pia.gov.ph/default.asp?m=12&sec=reader&rp=1&fi=p070828.htm&no=7&date=08/28/2007] . He was eventualy caught by the Spanish Guardia Civil based in Palapag and was executed together with several followers. They were charged ofconspiracy with planning to attack the Spanish settlement.ee also
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