Mangubat (surname)

Mangubat
Family name
Mangubat's 16th century Coat of Arms
Pronunciation	mang-gubat
Meaning	" To wage war "
Language(s) of origin	Cebuano
Related names	Manguerra

Mangubat (Mang-gubat) (Spanish: Guerrear);^[1] is a Filipino surname of Mactan Island origin which means "to wage war"^{[2] [3]} It belongs to a noble lineage according to Vicente de Cadenas y Vicent^[4] Chronicler King of Arms of the Kingdom of Spain and the last Cronista Rey de Armas appointed by the Spanish Ministry of Justice.

The Mangubat surname were members of the hidalgo class of Spain that had an azure shield, with a vertical gold pike or pica, and stick.^{[lower-alpha 1][5]} Mangubat when related to a name, it usually means marauders and warriors in the Visayas.

Antonio de Morga, in his book published in 1609 Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, mentions that the term means "to go to war and raid for plunder".^[6][7] the term was also used by Francisco Baltazar (1778–1862) in his 1838 book Florante at Laura to means "to go for battle".^[8] The term is derived from two Filipino words – the verb mang (to do) and the noun gubat (war).^[9] "Gubat" is a common word for war in the language of the Visayans,the ancient Tagalog,^[10] the Ilocano people,^[11] the Igorot people,^{[lower-alpha 2]} in Mindanao, and in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao.^{[lower-alpha 3]}

Etymology

The term is ancient, appearing in both noun and verb forms in the books contemporaneous with the pintados age.

A mangubat was a man who left his homeland, family, and people for war adventure, mainly for tattooing, or sometimes for slave-raiding, with the implication that he planned to return home with his newly won fortune and fame. It does not include the concept of staying in the place one has conquered.

The word existed in both a noun form (mangubat, the person traveling for war adventure)^[12] and a verb form (mangubat, to travel for war or participate in one of these adventures).

Coat of Arms

The Azure(Blue) shield Signify Blue Blooded, Royalty and Nobility. The Pica(Pike) represent Honorable Warrior and Valiant Knight, emblem of gallant Military and Knightly service, The perfection of Martial affairs. The gold Pica means noble and conquistador or Spanish Hidalgo.

Brief description of the Mangubat warriors

"Their weapons consist of large knives curved like cutlasses (Sanggot), spears (Bancao,bangkaw) and caraças (shields). They employ the same kinds of boats as the inhabitants of Luzon. They have the same occupations, products, and means of gain as the inhabitants of all the other islands (i.e. Islands of the Visayas and Mindanao). These Visayans which they call Mangubat are a race less inclined to agriculture, and are skilful in navigation, and eager for war and raids for pillage and booty. Mangubat, this means "to go out for plunder." ^[13][14]

Mangubat people

• si Mangubat – was a datu of Mactan during the time of Legaspi
• Lazaro Mangubat – (fl. 1630), was gobernadorcillo on Bantayan island.
• Lucas Mangubat – (1690), was gobernadorcillo of Batangas (i.e. municipal judge or governor in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period).^[15][16]
• Lorenzo Mangubat – (ca. 1700s) was a cabeza (i.e. the municipal chief or head under Spanish colonial times) of Opon( Now Lapu–Lapu City)^[17]
• Alejandro Mangubat – was a cabeza of Opon
• Leon Mangubat – (ca. 1800s) was a gobernadorcillo of Dasmariñas Cavite^[18]
• Antonio Mangubat – (Lapu–Lapu first municipal president under the American regime, year 1902)^[19][20]
• Tomasa Mangubat – she was the mother of Pascual dela Serna the last juez de paz of Lapu–Lapu and the first elected municipal president of Lapu–Lapu City.^[21][22] The visita chapel where Sr. San Roque was enshrined is said to have been entrusted to the Mangubat family, up to the time when Tomasa Mangubat, a daughter of Alejandro Mangubat married the first Rito dela Serna in the 1800s.
• Dominador I. Mangubat – (1904–1980), is a former Dasmariñas, Cavite governor; former member of (FACGF) Fil-American Cavite Guerilla Force – World War II.^[23]
• Isidro Mangubat – municipal president (1925–1927) of Dasmariñas Cavite.
• Doroteo Mangubat – municipal president (1934–1935) of Dasmariñas Cavite.
• Pedro Mangubat – (Borbon, Cebu 1st municipal president under the American regime)^[24]
• Santiago Mangubat – (Borbon, Cebu 3rd municipal president under the American regime)^[24]
• Monteno Mangubat – (Borbon, Cebu 4th municipal president under the American regime)^[24]
• Rev. Dr. Osbaldo Mangubat Padilla – the first Filipino priest to enter the Vatican Academy of Diplomacy and presently the Papal Nuncio to Korea and to Mongolia; Previous Posts: Apostolic Nuncio to Panama, Apostolic Nuncio to Sri Lanka, Apostolic Nuncio to Nigeria, Apostolic Nuncio to Costa Rica; Current Post: Apostolic Nuncio to Korea and Apostolic Nuncio to Mongolia; In Current office Since: April 26, 2008 ; Nuncio Since: 17 Dec 1990 – Present.^[25]
• Norsem Mangubat – spokesperson of the Regional Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines, Central Mindanao ^[26]
• Rubio Manggubat – spokesperson New People's Army, Eastern Samar (Sergio Lobina Command).^[27]
• Jaime Virata Mangubat, M.D. (1927 Manila – 2012 Wayne County, Tennessee, United States) – the street to Wayne County General Hospital was named J. V. Mangubat Drive in his honor. In 2007, the Tennessee Legislature honored him by proclaiming April 13 as Dr. J. V. Mangubat Day.^[28]

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