Pangeran Ratu was the ruler of Banten

Banten

Banten is a province of Indonesia in Java. Formerly part of the Province of West Java, it was made a separate province in 2000.The administrative center is Serang. Preliminary results from the 2010 census counted some 10.6 million people.-Geography:...

 in Northwest Java

Java

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, Indonesia

Indonesia

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, and was the first ruler anywhere on the island of Java to take the title of sultan

Sultan

Sultan is a title with several historical meanings. Originally, it was an Arabic language abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", "rulership", and "dictatorship", derived from the masdar سلطة , meaning "authority" or "power". Later, it came to be used as the title of certain rulers who...

, which he took in 1638, under the Arabic name Abulmafakhir Mahmud Abdulkadir. This set a precedent for Sultan Agung of Mataram

Sultan Agung of Mataram

Sultan Agung of Mataram or Sultan Agung Anyokrokusumo or Sultan Agung Hanyokrokusumo was the Sultan of Mataram from 1613-1645...

 soon afterwards to take the title himself.

Pangeran Ratu reigned during a prosperous trading time, from which his empire gained considerable wealth; however it was also a period of increasing European influence in Western Java. In 1603, the first permanent trading post of the Dutch East India Company

Dutch East India Company

The Dutch East India Company was a chartered company established in 1602, when the States-General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia...

 (VOC) was established in Banten, and in 1602 the English were also given a trading post there. Jayakerta (modern Jakarta

Jakarta

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) was then a vassal of Banten, which both the English and Dutch sought for its natural harbor. Bantenese forces held the territory from both, until the VOC under Jan Pieterszoon Coen

Jan Pieterszoon Coen

Jan Pieterszoon Coen was a officer of the Dutch East India Company in the early seventeenth century, holding two terms as its Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies....

 burned down the town and drove the Bantenese out, and renamed in Batavia.

From 1633 to 1639, another war was fought with the Dutch, which ended with a vague ceasefire commitment. A treaty in 1645 clarified the situation, which held until the reign of Pangeran Ratu's successor, Ageng

Ageng

Ageng , also known as Tirtayasa and Abulfatah Agung, was the sultan of Banten during the kingdom's golden age...

.