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A SHORT HISTORY OF PATANI 5

and Phaya Tu Nakpa. He was given the name Ismacil Syah shortly
after the Islamization of the state. Before that event he had three
children, his sons Mudhaffar and Manzur,19 and a daughter, Sitti
cA’isyah. Mudhaffar succeeded his father. Inasmuch as Mudhaffar’s
son Raja Bambang was thirty years old around 1563, and therefore was
bom around 1533, Mudhaffar Syah can have been bom no later than
about 1513. Given the high probability of much earlier dates for the
foundation and Islamization of the city, these men would seem to be less
the first rulers of the state than the first about whom memory reveals
some historical facts, for the preoccupations ascribed them by the
chroniclers certainly were real. The most important of these were their
relations with their Thai suzerain to the north.
RELATIONS WITH AYUDHYA

Neither the Royal Chronicles of the Kingdom of Ayudhya nor the HP
shed much light on the relations between the Malay states of the
isthmian region and their Thai suzerain to the north, although in the HP
this is the dominant theme in the story of Patani to the early seventeenth
century. It is clear from the information we have, however, that Ayudhya
played a prominent role in the history of the region in the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries, if not before. The origin of their connection is uncer­
tain, but there are some grounds for believing that the Kingdom of
Sukhothai was active in the isthmian region as early as the last quarter
of the thirteenth century, when a relationship was entered into with the
state centred on Nakhtjn Si Thammarat.20 Such suzerain-vassal relation­
ships survived the collapse of Sukhothai early in the fourteenth century
to become a regular fixture in the political relations of the Kingdom of
Ayudhya, founded in 1350. Tome Pires states that Patani and Siam
already were well connected by the end of the fourteenth century: King
Borommaracha I (1370—88) was reported to have taken a daughter
of “one of the principal mandarins of Patani” as a concubine, and the
issue of that union was married to the chief of Singapore who evicted
Paramesvara, the founder of Malacca, in 1398, at which time the
“mandarin” of Patani led the force which carried out the task.21

19 Both MSS. consistently spell Manzur; this must be an old mistake (a hypercorrect
form?) for Mansur, the well-known sultan’s name. However, in view of the
unanimity of the MSS. we have preferred keeping the form found in our source
throughout this book. Syukri has the form Mansur.
20 Wyatt and Bastin, 1968.
21 Cortesao, 1944, p. 232.