Third Javanese War of Succession

1749–1757 armed conflict in Java

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Third Javanese War of Succession

| Date| 15 December 1749 – February 1757
(7 years and 2 months)

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Location|

Mataram Sultanate

Status|

Treaty of Giyanti

* End of the Mataram Sultanate
* Division of Mataram in 3 independent states called Surakarta Sunanate, Yogyakarta Sultanate and Mangkunegaran Palace
* Raden Mas Said's surrender

Belligerents
Mataram Sultanate
(until 1755)
Dutch East India Company
Yogyakarta Sultanate (from 1755)
Surakarta Sunanate
(from 1755)|  Anti-Dutch rebels
Commanders and leaders
Pakubuwana III
Nicolaas Hartingh
Hamengkubuwono I
(from 1755)|  Prince Mangkubumi
(until 1755)
Raden Mas Said
Strength
Unknown|  Unknown
Casualties and losses
Unknown|  Unknown

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Dutch colonial campaigns

17th century

* Bantam (1601)
* Amboina (1605)
* Malacca (1606)
* Cape Rachado (1606)
* Mozambique (1607)
* Mozambique (1608)
* Banda Islands (1609–21)
* Johor (1613)
* Macau (1622)
* Pescadores (1622–24)
* Salvador (1624)
* Luanda (1624)
* Persian Gulf (1625)
* Salvador (1625)
* Elmina (1625)
* Cuba (1628)
* Batavia (1628–29)
* Recife (1630)
* Jambi (1630)
* Abrolhos (1631)
* Liaoluo Bay (1633)
* Taiwan (1635–36)
* Brazil (1636)
* Liuqiu Island (1636)
* Porto Calvo (1637)
* Elmina (1637)
* Vietnam (1637–43)
* Goa (1638)
* Salvador (1638)
* Mormugão (1639)
* Itamaracá (1640)
* Ceylon (1640)
* Malacca (1641)
* Luanda (1641)
* Taiwan (1641)
* Taiwan (1642)
* Chile (1643)
* Cambodia (1643–44)
* New Netherland (1643–45)
* India (1644-45)
* Tabocas (1645)
* Brazil (1645)
* Philippines (1646)
* Kombi (1647)
* Guararapes (1648)
* Guararapes (1649)
* Taiwan (1652)
* 2nd Recife (1652-1654)
* 2nd Colombo (1654)
* Malabar (1658-1663)
* New Netherland (1659–63)
* South Africa (1659-1677)
* Taiwan (1661–62)
* Sri Lanka (1670-1670)
* India (1673)
* Java (1674–80)

18th century

* Java (1704–07)
* Java (1719–23)
* India (1739–41)
* Java (1741–43)
* Penfui (1749)
* Java (1749–57)
* Sri Lanka (1764-1766)
* India (1781)
* Ceylon (1782)
* Gold Coast (1782)
* Cape Colony (1795)

19th century

* Surinam (1804)
* Cape Colony (1806)
* Java (1806–07)
* Moluccas (1810)
* Java (1811)
* Algiers (1816)
* Ambon (1817)
* Palembang (1819)
* Palembang (1821)
* Sumatra (1821–37)
* Borneo (1823)
* Bone (1824–25)
* Java (1825–30)
* Aceh (1831)
* Ahanta (1837–39)
* Bali (1846)
* Bali (1848)
* Bali (1849)
* Palembang (1851–59)
* Montrado (1854–55)
* Nias (1855–64)
* Bali (1858)
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* Borneo (1859–63)
* Japan (1863–64)
* Pasoemah (1864–68)
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* Aceh (1873–1913)
* Mandor (1884–85)
* Jambi (1885)
* Edi (1890)
* Lombok and Karangasem (1894)
* Pedir (1897–98)

20th century

* Kerinci (1903)
* Bone (1905–06)
* Bali (1906)
* Bali (1908)
* Venezuela (1908)
* Indonesia (1941–45)
* Indonesia (1946–49)

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Campaigns of
the Mataram Sultanate

* Surabaya (1614–1625)
* Batavia (1628–1629)
* Trunajaya rebellion (1674–1680)
* 1st Succession (1704–1708)
* 2nd Succession (1719–1723)
* Java (1741–1743)
* 3rd Succession (1749–1757)

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Third Javanese War of Succession

* Battle of Grobogan
* Battle of Demak
* Battle of the Bogowonto River (1751)

The Third Javanese War of Succession was an armed conflict from 1749 to 1757 on the island of Java. It led to the partition of the Mataram Sultanate into two and later three nominally independent 'Princely States': Surakarta, Yogyakarta and Mangkunegara.

## Cause

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One of the causes of the war was Governor-General van Imhoff's humiliation of Prince Mangkubumi, the younger brother of Pakubuwana II of Surakarta's, by demanding the lease of the Javanese northern coast for an annual payment of 20,000 reales. Van Imhoff and Patih Pringgalaya then persuaded Pakubuwana II to cancel the grant of a fief in Sukawati (now Sragen) which had been promised to Mangkubumi as a reward for defeating Raden Mas Said's rebellion there in 1746. In response, Mangkubumi left Surakarta and rose up against the Dutch East India Company and Pakubuwana II joined forces with his nephew and former enemy, Raden Mas Said.[1]

## War and settlement

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In the midst of the Mangkubumi rebellion in 1749, Pakubuwana II fell ill and asked Johan Andries, Baron Van Hohendorff to assume control over the kingdom. Van Hohendorff requested written confirmation. On 11 December 1749, Pakubuwana II signed an agreement in which the "sovereignty" of Mataram was given to the Dutch East India Company. They installed a powerless puppet, Pakubuwana III, on the throne. Mangkubumi, who considered himself to be the rightful heir to the throne, demanded the title of ruler. The people of Mataram, who called him Hamengkubuwono, regarded him as the true ruler of Mataram.[2]

After years of battles including at Grobogan and Demak, the Dutch under de Clerck suffered a crushing defeat at the Bogowonto River. Governor-General Mossel entered peace negotiations with Hamengkubuwono. Eventually in 1755 the Treaty of Giyanti was concluded, named after the place east of Surakarta where the negotiations took place. The Kingdom of Mataram was divided between the two warring parties. The old capital of Kartasura, which after years of fratricidal war had come to be thought of as doom-laden, was abandoned. Pakubuwana III became ruler of the eastern part of Mataram [(Kasoenanan Solo or Surakarta) (1750–1788)], and built a new kraton in Surakarta. Hamengkubuwono became Sultan Hamengkubuwono I, reigning over the western half of Mataram, and north of Kartasura built his new kraton at Yogyakarta (Kasultanan Yogyakarta) (1755–1792). He also gave Mas Said a south-eastern part of Mataram as the 'princely state' of Mangkunegara (1757–1796), where he ruled as Mangkunegara I and built his own kraton near Surakarta.[3][4]

## References

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1. ^ Ricklefs, M. C. (2018). Soul catcher: Java's fiery Prince Mangkunagara I, 1726–95. Asian Studies Association of Australia. Singapore. ISBN 978-981-325-069-7. OCLC 1062361413.`{{cite book}}`: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
2. ^ Ricklefs, Merle (2021-07-16), Javanese Wars of Succession, Brill, retrieved 9 July 2024
3. ^ Putten, Jan van der; Kilcline Cody, Mary, 1961- (2009), Lost times and untold tales from the Malay world, NUS Press, ISBN 978-9971-69-454-8`{{citation}}`: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) \- chapter of Founding of Surakarta
4. ^ Pemberton, John (1994), On the subject of "Java", Cornell University Press, ISBN 978-1-5017-2936-2

## Sources

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* Ricklefs, M. C., A History of Modern Indonesia since c. 1200, Palgrave MacMillan, New York, 2008 (terbitan ke-4), ISBN 978-0-230-54686-8

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