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Key facts
- Royalty.name
- Lapulapu
- Royalty.succession
- Datu of Mactan (one of two)
- Royalty.image
- Lapulapu_2019_portrait.jpg
- Royalty.image_size
- 250px
- Royalty.caption
- Imaginary posthumous portrait of Lapulapu in his elder years, by Carlo Caacbay for the National Historical Commission of the Philippines, 2019
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Mactan
- Place of birth
- Mactan
- Place of death
- Mactan
- Occupation
- traditional leader or chief
- Position held
- chief
- Image
- Lapu-Lapu.jpg
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- name in native language
- Lapulapu
- Commons category
- Lapulapu
- date of birth
- 1492-00-00
- date of death
- 1542-01-01
- different from
- Lapu-Lapu
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Battle of Mactan
- Name
- Origins
- Religion
- ''Aginid''
- Legacy
- Recognition as a Filipino hero
- Kadaugan sa Mactan
- Commemorations
- In urban legend and folklore
- In popular culture
- Shrine
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Lapulapu (fl. 1521) Lapu-lapu, or Lapu-Lapu, whose name was first recorded as Çilapulapu, was a Datu of Mactan, an island now part of the Philippines.
Lapulapu is known for the 1521 Battle of Mactan, where he and his men defeated Spanish forces led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. Magellan's death at the hands of Lapulapu's men ended his voyage of circumnavigation and delayed the Spanish occupation of the islands by over forty years until the expedition of Miguel López de Legazpi which reached the archipelago in 1565.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lapulapu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.