Regimo de Raja

Regimo de Raja (died 1513)[1] was a Filipino (Luçoes) general, governor and spice magnate who found work in Portuguese Malacca. He was highly influential and the Portuguese appointed him as Temenggung (Sea Lord) (Jawi: تمڠݢوڠ [2]) or a governor and chief general responsible for overseeing of the maritime trade, protecting the monarch and policing the state. As Temenggung, he was also the head of a fleet which traded and protected commerce between the Indian Ocean, the Strait of Malacca, the South China Sea,[3] and the medieval maritime principalities of the Philippines.[4][5] His father and wife carried on his maritime trading business after his death.[6]

References
  1. Reid, Anthony (2001). Sojourners and Settlers: Histories of Southeast China and the Chinese. University of Hawaii Press. p. 35. ISBN 9780824824464. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
  2. Turnbull, C.M. (1977). A History of Singapore: 1819-1975. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-580354-X.
  3. Antony, Robert J. Elusive Pirates, Pervasive Smugglers: Violence and Clandestine Trade in the Greater China Seas. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010. Print, 76.
  4. Junker, Laura L. Raiding, Trading, and Feasting: The Political Economy of Philippine Chiefdoms. Honolulu: University of Hawaiì Press, 1999.
  5. Wilkinson, R J. An Abridged Malay-English Dictionary (romanised). London: Macmillan and Co, 1948. Print, 291.
  6. "The Philippines and the Sandalwood Trade" By Paul Kekai Manansala
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