Philippine history : reassessed / Isidro Escare Abeto.

CHAPTER XXVIII
SULTAN KUDARAT,
A MINDANAO HERO
Nine Years After Legazpi
ine years after the coming
of the Spanish colonizer and
Captain General Miguel
Lopez de Legazpi to the Philippines, precisely, in the year 1580,
Sultan Mohammad Dipatuan Kudarat was born. This great Muslim
leader ruled over his Sultanate of \,
Maguindanao (now Mindanao) in a
span of 52 years (1619-1671). His
career as a ruler was considered one s
of the most colorful in Philippine
history. He was married to one of / A
the daughters of Sultan Mawallil
Wasit of the Sulu Archipelago, who
ruled over his sultanate during the SULTAN MOHAMMAD
early part of the 17th century. Sultan DIPATUAN KUDARAT
Kudarat was the contemporary of
both Raha Bongsu and the latter's son Sultan Salah Ud-Din Bakhtiar. Sultan
Kudarat died at the ripe age of 91 years.

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