Principalia Families of the Philippines | Lacandolas of Bulacan

Thank you for watching another episode, of the Filipino Genealogy Channel. Today's video is part one of another genealogy series which will run in the next few months. This series is called the Principalia Families of the Philippines.
And for today's episode, we shall focus on the Lakandula families of the province of Bulacan. The principalia were the local functionaries in each town during the Spanish period in the Philippines. These men and women received special privileges and priority treatment from the colonial rulers.
They were the ones who were always enumerated in town documents, listed down one by one, while the rest of the non-principalia members of the community were collectively listed down as "and the rest of them".
They were allowed to carry the ennobling title of Don, while their wife held the title of Dona. Their eldest son also held the title Don.
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[@nicolasjuandecardenas7921]

Genealogy is the handmaid of history .

[@vivalacarlo]

Thanks for this! My family surname Coloma isnt listed in the claveria decree list of names and they were mayors since 1818, would this mean that they were of Spanish descendant or principalia? Located in the Ilocos region. My grandma once mentioned us being part chinese but havent found anything on that

[@TheFILIPINOGENEALOGYChannel]

Hi, actually Coloma is listed in the Catalogo.

[@vivalacarlo]

@@TheFILIPINOGENEALOGYChannel i mustve missed it, thanks!

[@TheFILIPINOGENEALOGYChannel]

But since your family has been using Coloma simce 1818 and were gobernadorcillos, yes they is a very high probability your ancestors were members of the principalia.

[@virgilioventura3189]

It is said that Teodora Alonso Mercado y Realonda (Jose Rizal's mother) is a descendant of the Chieftain Lakandula. Can you comment on this?

[@johnarellano2979]

This was only mentioned by one of the Historians comissioned by the American gov't to add more crendentials to JRP to justify him being chosen as national hero instead of Marcelo H. Del Pillar who's a direct descendant of the Noble Gatmaitans. The Historian only THEORIZED that JRP's 1st recorded Ancestor w/ pincipalia priveleges, Don Gregorio Alonzo was possibly descended from Alonzo Talabos & Maria Poloin, daughter of Lakandula. Gregorio Alonzo was listed though as a Chinese Mestizo with no record of his ancestry.. He is said to have gained the priveleges for being the leader of the Chinese community of Binondo who sided w/ the Spaniards.

[@TheFILIPINOGENEALOGYChannel]

I wrote an article about this in our website. www.filipinogenealogy.com/2019/07/was-jose-rizal-descendant-of-lakandula.html?m=1#:~:text=A%20confederation%20of%20barangays%20in,Saber%20and%20Madale%2C%201975).