Lakan Dula II (Maharlika Timeline)

Lakan Dula II, originally born as Batang Dula y Goiti, and later Yusuf Batang Dula or Yusuf Lakandula, was the King of Tondo from 1591 to 1611.

Batang Dula was the eldest son of Lakan Dula, and was one of the early native princes of the Pasig River kingdoms to have come into contact with the Spaniards. His father, Bunao Lakan Dula, then-king of Tondo, befriended the Spaniards and had the entire family converted to Roman Catholicism.

As a Catholic, he was known by Batang Dula y Goiti. However, Martin de Goiti and Juan de Salcedo were both killed in war by Rajah Sulayman of the neighboring Muslim kingdom of Maynila.

In 1574 however, Miguel Lopez de Legazpi returned with reinforcements, briefly defeating the Muslim armies of the Pasig River, and establishing an alliance with Maynila, Tondo and Namayan.

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