Editing Miguel López de Legazpi (section)

===Last years===
López de Legazpi governed the Philippines for a year before dying suddenly of a stroke in Manila on 20 August 1572 after scolding an aide.<ref>{{cite book |last= Serag |first= Sebastian Sta. Cruz |title= The Remnants of the Great Ilonggo Nation |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=7BsNAEtKyzcC |year=1997 |publisher= Rex Bookstore, Inc. |isbn= 978-971-23-2142-9 |page= [https://books.google.com/books?id=7BsNAEtKyzcC&pg=PA160 160]}}</ref><ref>Stanley Karnow, In our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines, pg 47.</ref> He died bankrupt, leaving a few [[peso]]s behind,{{how many?|date=July 2012}} due to having spent most of his personal fortune during the conquest. He was laid to rest in [[San Agustin Church, Manila|San Agustin Church]], Intramuros.

By the time of López de Legazpi's death, the parts of the [[Visayas]] had passed to Spanish rule. The Spanish met strong resistance from [[Moro people|Muslim sultanates]] on the island of [[Mindanao]], the [[Zambal]] tribes of Zambales, and the [[Igorot]] of the Cordilleran mountains, as well as some [[Wokou]] pirates from China and Japan.{{citation needed|date=July 2012}}

====Letters to the King of Spain====
During his final years, López de Legazpi wrote several letters to Philip II of Spain about his journey to the [[East Indies]],  and the conquest he had achieved.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Beauchesne|first=Kim|date=2015|title=Trans-Pacific Connections: Cultural Contacts through the Lens of Miguel López de Legazpi's Representation of the Philippines and its Relationship with the Early Accounts of the New World |journal=Asian Journal of Latin American Studies|volume=28|pages=1–28}}</ref> These were collectively known as the {{Lang|es|"Cartas al Rey Don Felipe II: sobre la expedición, conquistas y progresos de las islas Felipinas"}} (Letters to the King Lord Philip II: on the expedition, conquests, and progress of the Philippine Islands). The letters are preserved at the [[General Archive of the Indies]] in Seville, Spain.