From 1691 thereafter, the royal powers reverted back to the succeeding Sultans of Sulu.
He did also have 13 concubines, which the American public may have confused for other, actual wives.
No regard whatsoever has been made to the well-established rules on conflict of laws and forum selection in making such decision.
Royal Sultanate of Sulu was founded in 1457 by Malacca born scholar, Sayed-al-Hashim Abu Bakr.
Muhamad Azim bin Mazlan is a researcher at Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia.
The Spanish had native allies against the former Muslims they conquered like Hindu Tondo which resisted Islam when Brunei invaded and established Manila as a city-state to supplant Tondo.