Dayang Kalangitan (Baybayin: ᜃᜎᜅᜒᜆᜈ᜔, Abecedario: Cálan͠gúitán) is a legendary figure in early Philippine history who was said to be Dayang of the pre-Hispanic Indianized polity of Pasig. She was co-regent of Pasig with her husband, Rajah Lontok, and later sole ruler of their realms. She is one of the very few known female leaders in precolonial Philippine history. She ruled Pasig from her seat of power in Bitukang Manók. Her children are Dayang Panginoan, Dayang Lahat, Rajah Salalila of Maynila and Gat Kahiya.

Life

Dayang Kalangitan was married to Gat Lontok, (later Rajah Lontok) of Tondo. Together with her husband, Kalangitan established a small kingdom upstream to the east of Tondo around the Bitukang Manók (today Parian Creek in Pasig). Eventually, she became sole ruler of both Tondo, which included Bitukang Manók, the place she had established with her husband. In order to consolidate power, her daughter Dayang Panginoan, was married to Prince Balagtas, the son of Empress Sasaban of Namayan. However, at around c.1500, the Sultanate of Brunei made an attack on the Kingdom of Tondo and established the Kingdom of Maynila and put Kalangitan's son, Salalila as the monarch of Maynila. Dayang Kalangitan's son Salalila succeeded her as monarch; after converting to Islam, he adopted his more famous name, Sulaiman. Tondo and Maynila became separate kingdoms after Salalila. Tondo was ruled by Salalila's eldest son, Lakandula and Maynila by Rajah Matanda and Rajah Sulayman. Namayan came under the rule of Rajah Kalamayin.

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