Editing Lakandula (section)

{{Short description|Lakan of Tondo}}
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{{Infobox noble|type
| name = Lakandula
| title = [[Lakan]] of [[Tondo (historical polity)|Tondo]]
| image = 
| caption = 
| CoA = 
| reign = Before 1570–1575
| tenure = 
| spouse = 
| full name = {{script|Tglg|ᜊᜓᜈᜏ᜔ᜎᜃᜈ᜔ᜇᜓᜎ}} <br> ''Bunao Lakan Dula''
| issue = Dionisio Capulong<br/>
[[Magat Salamat]]<br/>
Phelipe Salonga<br/>
Maria Poloin<br/>
Martin Lacandola<br/>
Luis Taclocmao (sometimes referred to as Luis Salugmoc)
| predecessor = 
| successor = [[Agustin de Legazpi]]<ref name="scottparchment"/>
| noble family = Tondo
| death_date = 1575
}}

'''Lakandula''' ([[Baybayin]]: {{script|Tglg|ᜎᜃᜈ᜔ᜇᜓᜎ}}, [[Filipino orthography|Spanish orthography]]: ''Lacandola'') was the title of the last ''[[lakan]]'' or paramount ruler of [[History of the Philippines (900–1521)|pre-colonial]] [[Tondo (historical polity)|Tondo]] when the [[Spain|Spaniards]] first conquered the lands of the [[Pasig River]] delta in the [[Philippines]] in the 1570s.<ref name="JoaquinManila">{{cite book|last=Joaquin|first=Nick|author-link=Nick Joaquin|title=Manila, My Manila: A History for the Young|publisher=Anvil Publishing, Inc.|year=1990|location=City of Manila|isbn=978-971-569-313-4}}</ref>

The firsthand account of Spanish Royal Notary Hernando Riquel<ref name="scottparchment"/>{{rp|13}} says that he introduced himself to the Spanish as "'''Sibunao Lacandola'''". While his given name has since been interpreted as being "Bunao",<ref name="inarticulate"/> the historic meaning of the word Lakan, was a title equivalent to prince or paramount ruler, meaning he was the principal Datu or Prince of his domain.

Along with [[Rajah Matanda]] and [[Rajah Sulayman]], Bunao Lakandula (or Lakan of Tondo), was one of three rulers who played significant roles in the Spanish conquest of the Pasig River delta polities during the earliest days of the Philippines under [[Spanish East Indies|Spanish colonial period]].<ref name="inarticulate"/>

While it is questionable whether "Lakandula" represented a single titular name during his own lifetime, a few of his descendants in the first few generations after his death came to refer to themselves as the "Lakandula of Tondo", taking that name on as a noble title.<ref name="Santiago">{{cite journal|last=Santiago|first=Luciano P. R.|author-link=Luciano P. R. Santiago|title=The Houses of Lakandula, Matanda, and Soliman [1571–1898]: Genealogy and Group Identity|journal=Philippine Quarterly of Culture and Society|volume=18|issue=1|date=March 1990|pages=39–73|jstor=29791998}}</ref>