“There is '"historical fact" in the assertion of Sen. Christopher ""Bong"" Go that Lapulapu was a Tausug leader from the "East Kingdom of Sulu.”
What Vera Files found
The National Historical Commission says that details about Lapulapu’s personal life and origin, including his ethnicity as a Tausug warrior from a Sulu kingdom, remain a mystery due to lack of “any credible eyewitness account or any form of document” to identify even his birthplace and parents. The agency said it “considers all popular accounts and stories outside of these historical sources as speculative and folkloric and should not be regarded as established facts of history.”
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Robin Padilla made this claim around 29 April 2021. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 10 May 2021, 11 days later. Its rating was “Unproven”.
Robin Padilla has 7 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 6 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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