Mahmud Shah I of Pahang

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Mahmud Shah
محمود شاه
Sultan of Pahang
Reign1519–1530
Predecessor Mansur Shah I
Successor Muzaffar Shah
Died1530
SpouseRaja Putri Olah
Raja Khadija
Issue Raja Muzaffar
Raja Zainal
Regnal name
Paduka Sri Sultan Mahmud Shah ibni al-Marhum Sultan Muhammad Shah
Posthumous name
Marhum di Hilir
House Melaka
Father Muhammad Shah
Religion Sunni Islam

Sultan Mahmud Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Muhammad Shah (died 1530) was the fifth Sultan of Pahang who reigned from 1519 to 1530. He succeeded on the death of his cousin, Mansur Shah I in 1519. [1] His eleven years reign was marked with close relations with his namesake Mahmud Shah, the last ruler of Melaka, in supporting the latter's struggle against the Portuguese in Malacca, directly bringing Pahang into a number of armed conflicts with the European power. [2]

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Personal life

Sultan Mahmud was known as Raja Mahmud before his accession. He was the youngest of the three sons of the first Sultan of Pahang, Muhammad Shah by his wife Mengindra Putri, a princess from Kelantan. [3] His first royal wife was his first cousin Raja Putri Olah binti al-Marhum Sultan Ahmad, daughter of the second Sultan of Pahang. [4]

Shortly after his accession, Sultan Mahmud visited his namesake cousin, the deposed Sultan of Melaka, Mahmud Shah, who was exiled at Bintan after the conquest of Melaka in 1511. There, he married Raja Khadija, one of the daughters of his cousin. The marriage was designed to strengthen the position of Mahmud Shah of Melaka in his fight against the Portuguese. [4]

From his marriage to Princess Olah, Sultan Mahmud had issued two sons, the eldest being Raja Muzaffar, who later succeeded him in 1530 as the next sultan, and the younger Raja Zainal. [5]

Reign

At the beginning of his reign in 1519, it was claimed in Os Portugueses em Africa, America e Oceania that a Portuguese ambassador Duarte Coelho had secured an agreement with the Sultan for an annual tribute of a cup of gold, to establish Pahang as a vassal of Portuguese Malacca. However, the agreement was thought to have been nullified shortly afterwards, following the marriage alliance established in the same year between Sultan Mahmud and the deposed Sultan of Melaka, Mahmud Shah of Bintan.

Ignorant of this development, Albuquerque sent three ships to the port of Pahang for provisions, where two of his captains and thirty men were killed. The third made his escape, but was slain with all his men at Java. Simon Abreu and his crew were slain on another occasion. [2] Valentyn records that in 1522 a Portuguese fleet under the command of Antonio de Pina and his assistant Bernaldo Drago, who had landed at Pahang port, [6] in ignorance that the Sultan there was a son-in-law of Sultan Mahmud of Bintan, were ambushed and killed. The captured survivors were sent to Bintan and forced to embrace Islam, while those who refused were executed with blowing from a gun. [2]

The Portuguese, who apparently up to that time had made no attack on Pahang, exacted a stern reckoning in 1523. In that year, the Sultan Mahmud of Bintan again invested Melaka with the ruler of Pahang as his ally, and gained a victory over the Portuguese in the Muar River. [1] The Laksamana attacked the shipping in the roads of Melaka, burnt one vessel and captured two others. At this crisis, Martim Afonso de Sousa arrived with succours, relieved the city, and pursued the Laksamana into Muar. Thence he proceeded to Pahang, destroyed all the vessels in the river and slew over six hundreds people in retaliation for the assistance given by their ruler to the Sultan Mahmud of Bintan. Numbers were carried into slavery. A detailed account of Portuguese operations in Pahang during the years 1522–1523 is given by Fernão Lopes de Castanheda. In 1525, Pedro Mascarenhas attacked Bintan, Pahang sent a fleet with two thousand men to help the defenders. The forces arrived at the mouth of the river on the very day on which the bridge was destroyed. Mascarenhas despatched a vessel with Francisco Vasconcellos and others to attack Pahang forces which were speedily put to flight. After the destruction of Bintan, Sultan Mahmud of Bintan retreated to Kampar where he died in 1528 and was posthumously known as Marhum Kampar. He was succeeded by a son Alauddin Shah II, a youth fifteen years of age, who later established the Johor Sultanate. [2] [1] The young ruler visited Pahang about 1529 and married Raja Kesuma Dewi, the first cousin once removed to Sultan Mahmud of Pahang and daughter of Mansur Shah I. [7]

Death

Sultan Mahmud died in 1530 of unknown cause, and was succeeded by his first son, Raja Muzaffar. He was posthumously styled as Marhum di Hilir ('the late ruler who was buried downstream'). [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Ahmad Sarji 2011 , p. 81
  2. 1 2 3 4 Linehan 1973 , p. 20
  3. ↑ Linehan 1973 , p. 170
  4. 1 2 Linehan 1973 , p. 19
  5. ↑ Linehan 1973 , p. 172
  6. ↑ Buyong Adil 1972 , p. 53
  7. ↑ Buyong Adil 1972 , p. 55
  8. ↑ Linehan 1973 , p. 21

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Mahmud Shah I of Pahang
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