Prince Marama Teururai later known as Regent Marama (17 December 1851 – 7 June 1909) was a member of a Tahitian royal family (

House of Teururai The House of Teururai was the reigning family of the kingdom of Huahine and Maia'o between Ari'imate's coronation in 1852 and Teha'apapa III's cession of the kingdom to France in 1895. Teururai kings first ruled Huahine in the middle of the 19t ...

) which reigned on the Tahitian island of Huahine during the 19th century. He was designated as a

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Huahine Huahine is an island located among the Society Islands, in French Polynesia, an overseas territory of France in the Pacific Ocean. It is part of the Leeward Islands group ''(Îles sous le Vent).'' At the 2017 census it had a population of 6,075. ...

when his father became king of Huahine in 1852. He never became king of Huahine.

Biography

Prince Marama Teururai was born at

in 1851. He was the second son of King Ari'imate. His mother, Princess Maerehia Teha'apapa of

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, was the only living child of King Tamatoa IV of Raiatea. She became Queen regnant of Huahine under the reign name of Teha'apapa II after her husband was deposed in 1868.

Regency

He succeeded his younger brother as prime minister to their mother Queen Teha'apapa in 1884. He acted also as Regent from 1884 to 1895. He accepted the French protectorate on the kingdom in 1890, became regent from 1893 to 1895 to his eldest daughter Queen Teha'apapa, the last sovereign. He finally signed the annexation of his State in favor of France which annexed his

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on 1897.

Marriage and issue

He married Princess Tetuamarama of Rurutu (1857–1919) (eldest daughter of the King Teuruarii III of Rurutu and his wife Tematarurai'i) and had eight children but only three of them let a descendant: *

Tehaapapa III Princess Teri'i-na-vaha-roa (8 August 1879 – 27 April 1917) was the last sovereign monarch of the Kingdom of Huahine and Mai'ao from 1893 to 1895. Comteporary sources seems to call her Tehaapapa II instead, disregarding the ruling Tehaapapa I ...

– Last Queen of Huahine * ''Her Highness'' Princess Teanuinuiata – she had ten legitimate children * ''Her Highness'' Princess Tetuamarama – she had six legitimate children Their children remain the pretendant to the royal family of Huahine since the end of the monarchy on this island. Regent Marama died at Huahine in 1909.

Ancestry

References

External links and sources

* ''Tahiti, les temps et les pouvoirs. Pour une anthropologie historique du Tahiti post-européen, Paris, ORSTOM, 543 p., Jean-François BARE. * ''Trois ans chez les Canaques. Odyssée d'un Neuchâtelois autour du monde. Lausanne, Payot & C° Éditeurs, 342p., Eugène HANNI. * ''Tahiti aux temps anciens (traduction française de Bertrand Jaunez'', Pars, Musée de l'Homme,

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, 671p. (édition originale ''Ancient Tahiti'', Honolulu 1928) de

Teuira Henry Teuira Henry (24/27 January 1847 – 23 January 1915) was a British Tahitian scholar, ethnologist, folklorist, linguist, historian and educator. She worked to reconstruct a lost manuscript on the history of Tahiti written by her grandfather, Engl ...