The Spanish people as well as Native descendants of precolonial nobility belonged to the upper class, and they were further subdivided into more classes: the "peninsulares","creoles", and the "Principalía". The "peninsulares" were people who were Spanish-born, but lived in the Philippines. The "creoles", or criollo people, were Spaniards who were born in the colonies. The principalia was a hereditary class of local Indios who descended from precolonial datus, rajah and nobility, and were granted special rights and privileges such as positions in local government and the right to vote, though they were lower than the peninsulares and insulares in social standing. Many members of the Philippine Revolution belonged to the principalia class like Jose Rizal. Although the "peninsulares" and the "creoles" enjoyed the same social power, as they both belonged to the upper class, the "peninsulares" considered themselves as socially superior to the "creoles" and the native "principalia".