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Magellan was never buried, as far as we know. He died in Mactan, Philippines, in a battle with Lapulapu. His remains were apparently kept by Lapulapu as a trophy, but know one knows what really happened.

Pigafetta and Ginés de Mafra provided written documents of the events culminating in Magellan's death:

"Nothing of Magellan's body survived, that afternoon the grieving rajah-king, hoping to recover his remains, offered Mactan's victorious chief a handsome ransom of copper and iron for them but Datu Lapulapu refused. He intended to keep the body as a war trophy. Since his wife and child died in Seville before any member of the expedition could return to Spain, it seemed that every evidence of Ferdinand Magellan's existence had vanished from the earth."

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