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Tun Seri Lanang

Died in 1659

Tun Muhammad, known as Tun Seri Lanang, was born in 1565 at Seluyut, in the kingdom of Johor, and was raised in the circle of the court. Bendahara of the sultanate of Johor, the highest office after the sovereign, he received in 1612 the commission for a chronicle of the Malay kings. Taken by Aceh in 1613, he remained in that kingdom, became the first uleebalang, or lord, of Samalanga and served as adviser to three successive sovereigns. He died at Samalanga in 1659.

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