The Code of Rajah Kalantiaw was a supposed legal code in the epic history Maragtas that is said to have been written in 1433 by Datu Kalantiaw, a chief on the island of Negros in the Philippines. It is now generally accepted by historians that the documents supporting the existence and history of the code, according to some sources, “appear to be deliberate fabrications with no historical validity" written in 1913 by a scholar named Jose Marco as a part of a historical fiction titled Las antiguas leyendas de la Isla de Negros (English: The Ancient Legends of the Island of Negros).[1][2]
In 1990, Philippine historian Teodoro Agoncillo described the code as "a disputed document."[3] Despite doubts on its authenticity, some history textbooks continue to present it as historical fact.[4] In 2005, the National Historical Commission of the Philippines officially recognized Kalantiaw and the Code of Kalantiaw to be a 20th-century fraudulent work by José Marco with no historical basis.[5]
- ^ Justiniano 2011.
- ^ "Kalantiaw : The Hoax". paulmorrow.ca. Retrieved August 26, 2022.
- ^ Agoncillo 1990, p. 26.
- ^ Zulueta & Nebres 2003, pp. 28–33.
- ^ Justiniano 2011, p. 26.
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