Parameswara

Parameswara is the name which the tradition gives to a prince of the city-State of Palembang in the southern of Sumatra in Indonesia which would have fled the city after an attack in 1377 by the kingdom of Majapahit of the is of Java, at the time of the king Hayam Wuruk (reign 1350-1389). The prince would then have gained Tumasik (current the Singapore) then the Malayan Péninsule, where it would have founded Malacca.

Another interpretation of the sources available said that with died of Hayam Wuruk in 1389, the sovereign of Palembang repudiates his statute of vassal of Majapahit. At that time, China of the Ming restored the system of commercial exchanges (which it continues of regarded as an exchange between a tribute poured by its vassal " Barbarian s" and of the gifts which it makes with those) as well as prohibition with the Chinese to travel in Southeast Asia. Prince de Palembang hoped to benefit from the need that would have the foreign merchants (i.e. of India and the Middle East) trading with China of a port in the area, part which had played of VIIIe in XIIIe centuries Sriwijaya (name of Palembang at the time). The Javaneses would have driven out it of Palembang. The prince would then have gained Tumasik then Malacca on the Malayan peninsula, of which he would then not be the founder.

References

Denys Lombard, the Javanese Crossroads
M.C. Ricklefs, has off History Modern Indonesia since C. 1300 , Stanford, 1994
Oliver W. Wolters, “Indonesia - The archipelago and its early historical records” in Encyclopedia Britannica

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