Mansur Shah

…of the next three rulers—Sultans Mansur Shah, reigned about 1459–77; Alaʾud-din, 1477–88; and Mahmud Shah, 1488–1511, all of whom were related to him—and pursuing an aggressive foreign policy that saw the sultanate established as a tributary empire embracing the whole of the Malay Peninsula and much of eastern Sumatra. At…