Princess Kandarapa was a princess of the Kingdom of Tondo during the Spanish conquest of the Philippines. She was described as a niece of Bunao Lakan Dula, king of Tondo, as she was a daughter of Bunao Lakan Dula's sister, princess Salanta, who became a widow at a young age. She was named after the Kandarapa bird, a lark that frequently stayed amongst the rice padies, who's songs she imitated with her beautiful voice. Her uncle resisted conversion to Islam and remained in the Hindu-Malay religion of his forebears and although Tondo was an older kingdom, it ceded power to Manila which was established as a satellite state subservient to the Sultanate of Brunei after a Bruneian invasion of Luzon. Lakan Dula, desirous of forging an alliance with the much more powerful Rajah of Macabebe, Tariq Suleiman, betrothed her niece to the Rajah of Macabebe, an arrangement Princess Kandarapa disapproved because he already had multiple wives from previous marriages as a result of his Islamic religion. Soon however, the balance of power between the state of Manila and the kingdom of Tondo came to a change with the arrival of the Spaniards, that had sailed from Mexico, who were firmly against Muslim interests as Christian Spain had freshly finished the Reconquista in the homeland, expelling the Arabic speaking denizens of the Emirate of Granada upon their invasion of that Muslim Spanish kingdom. It was in this context, was when Kandarapa was bathing in the Pasig River with a retinue of her servant-maidens was when she encountered the Mexico-born Spanish Conquistador Juan de Salcedo. While the rest of her entourage fled in fear of the man, she froze there staring at the erswhile Mexican, while the conquistador, in kind, stood there too, "appreciating' her feminine figure who by the color of her goldenbrown skin hinted at admixture present in her asides from the native Malay (North Indian, due to the Hindu religion of Tondo and East Asian due to trading links with the Far East), after briefly beholding her, he politely excused himself to do an errand. Romance with Conquistador Juan de Salcedo Local folk legends and a written account by Don Felipe Cepeda, Salcedo's aide, who returned to Acapulco, recount that after the Spanish conquest of Luzon with Mexican and Visayan assistance, and their consequent takeover of the Pasig River delta polity of Hindu Tondo, which was the previous preeminent