Regimo Diraja
Temenggung of Portuguese Malacca
Reignfl. 1511
BornLuzon
Died1513
Portuguese Malacca

Regimo Diraja was a Filipino (Luzones) general, governor, shipping operator and spice magnate who found fortune in the Portuguese Malacca. He was prominent and highly influential in Malacca even before the Portuguese came and after the Capture of Malacca on 1511, the Portuguese appointed him as a Temenggung (Sea Lord) (Jawi: تمڠݢوڠ [1]) or a governor and chief general responsible for overseeing of the maritime trade, protecting the monarch and policing the state. Before becoming a Temenggung, he was already the head of the fleet of junks which conducts trade with Brunei, China, Pasai, Siam and Sunda and also protected commerce between the Indian Ocean, the Strait of Malacca, the South China Sea,[2] and the medieval maritime principalities of the Philippines.[3][4] His father-in-law and wife carried on his maritime trading business after his death on 1513.[5][6]

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References

  1. ^ Turnbull, C.M. (1977). A History of Singapore: 1819-1975. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-580354-X.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Junker, Laura L. Raiding, Trading, and Feasting: The Political Economy of Philippine Chiefdoms. Honolulu: University of Hawaiì Press, 1999.
  4. ^ Wilkinson, R J. An Abridged Malay-English Dictionary (romanised). London: Macmillan and Co, 1948. Print, 291.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ "The Philippines and the Sandalwood Trade" By Paul Kekai Manansala
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