Trenggana

Trenggana (reigned 1521–1546), also called Trenggono, was the third sultan of Demak, succeeding Pati Unus, and is remembered as the third and greatest ruler of Java's first Islamic kingdom. Crowned by Sunan Gunungjati, one of the Wali Songo who spread Islam in Java, he carried Demak's power across central and eastern Java. ¹

Trenggana was a son of Raden Patah, the founder of Demak, and his mother is given by the Indonesian article as Dewi Murthasimah, a daughter of Sunan Ampel. The “sultan” title itself was applied to him only by later generations. After the discovery of the Portuguese–Sundanese alliance directed against Demak, Trenggana ordered the invasion of Banten and Sunda Kelapa, ports of the kingdom of Sunda, in 1527; Sunda Kelapa was renamed Jayakarta, and the conquered territories were made the new sultanate of Banten, a vassal state of Demak under Hasanuddin. ^{1 2}

Trenggana spread Demak's influence eastwards and conquered the remains of Majapahit, the last great Javanese Hindu-Buddhist state; its heirlooms were brought to Demak and adopted as royal treasures of the kraton. Demak Islamised and subjugated the major ports of East Java. His campaigns ended when he was killed at Panarukan in East Java in 1546 — the Indonesian article dates the death to 1 May 1546 and gives his birth, at Demak, in 1483; neither date is in the English article, and Wikidata's divergent values (born 1522, died 1548) are supported by neither. He was buried at Bintoro, Demak. ^{1 2 3}

The Indonesian article's infobox gives his denomination as Sunni, with the jurisprudence field left blank; no source read for this record names a legal school for him. His documented career is that of an Islamising king: crowned by Sunan Gunungjati, he conquered and Islamised the Hindu-Buddhist powers of Java's interior and planted the Banten sultanate in the west. ^{2 1}