Rajah Tupas

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| name = Tupas

| title = Rajah of Cebu

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| reign = 27 April 1521 — 27 April 1565

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| birth_date = {{circa}} 1497

| birth_place = Cebu

| death_date = {{BirthDeathAge|df=yes| |1497| | |1568}}

| death_place = Cebu, Captaincy General of the Philippines

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| predecessor = Rajah Humabon

| successor = Monarchy abolished
Miguel López de Legazpi (as Governor-General of the Philippines)

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| royal house = Cebu

| father = Sri Parang the Limp

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| religion = Hinduism (before 1568)
Roman Catholicism (later life)

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Rajah Tupas (baptized as Felipe Tupas; {{circa}} 1497 — 1568) was the last Rajah of Cebu in the Pre-Hispanic Indianized polity of Philippines. He was the son of Sri Parang the Limp, and the cousin of Rajah Humabon. He is known to have been baptized under duress on March 21, 1568, at age 70,He had also been baptized when Magellan arrived together with his wife, her parents, his brother, two sisters in-law and ten nieces. placing his birthdate at about 1497. He ruled Cebu with his peers until he was defeated by Miguel López de Legazpi's soldiers on April 27, 1565. On June 4, 1565, Tupas and Legaspi signed the Treaty of Cebu, which effectively gave Spain suzerainty over Cebu.{{Harvnb|Scott|1992|pp=50–53, notes 24 and 25 on pp. 62–63}}. He died later in 1568.

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  • {{Citation

|title=Looking for the Prehispanic Filipino: and other essays in Philippine history

|last=Scott

|first=William Henry

|publisher=New Day Publishers

|year=1992

|isbn= 978-971-10-0524-5

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z6ZwAAAAMAAJ

|postscript=.

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Category:People from Cebu

Category:Filipino datus, rajas and sultans

Category:People from the Spanish colonial Philippines

Category:Filipino Roman Catholics

Category:Converts to Roman Catholicism

Category:16th-century monarchs in Asia

Category:Year of death unknown

Category:1490s births

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