Marama Teururai

Full name
	Prince Marama Té-u-ru-ra-i of Huahine

Regent Marama
Regent Marama
	Regent of Huahine
Regent of Huahine
Reign	18 March 1884 – 15 September 1895
Predecessor	None
Successor	Monarchy abolished in 1895 for French Third Republic
Born	17 December 1851; Téfareri'i, Huahine
Died	7 June 1909 (aged 57); Faré, Huahine
Burial	Téfareri'i, Huahiné
Spouse	Princess Tétuanuimarama of Rurutu
Issue	Queen Teha'apapa of Huhaine ; Princess Teanuinuiata Teururai ; Princess Tétuamarama Teururai
Full name
	Prince Marama Té-u-ru-ra-i of Huahine
House	House of Teurura'i
Father	King Ari'imate Teururai of Huahine
Mother	Queen Teha'apapa II of Huahine

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) which reigned on the Tahitian island of Huahine during the 19th century.

Marama Teururai (standing right) and his family, c. 1890

He was designated as a crown prince of Huahine when his father became king of Huahine in 1852. He never became king of Huahine.

Biography

Prince Marama Teururai was born at Huahine in 1851.

He was the second son of King Ari'imate. His mother, Princess Maerehia Teha'apapa of Raiatea, 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 kingdom 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[1]^:168) and had eight children but only three of them let a descendant:

Tehaapapa III – 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

Ancestors of Marama Teururai

16. The Hon. Chief Mato Teri'i-te Po Are'i of Ra'iatea and Huahine

8. The Hon. Chief Mahine Te-hei-'ura of Huahine

17. The Hon. Chiefess Te-tu-ave-roa of Huahine

4. The Hon. Chief Ta'aroa-ri'i of Huahine

18. The Hon. Chief of Fareihi

9. The Hon. Chiefess Tao'a of Fareihi

2. King Ari'imate of Huahine

10. Me-hao

5. Té-mata-fainu'u vahine

11. Taura'a

1. Marama, Regent of Huahine

24. King Tamatoa III of Ra'iatea and Taha'a

12. Prince Vetea-ra'i U'uru of Ra'iatea, The Hon. Chief of Opoa

25. The Hon. Chiefess Hapaitaha'a of Hauiri

6. King Tamatoa IV of Rai'atea and Taha'a

13. The Hon. Chiefess Opai-pai Te-roro of Bora Bora

3. Princess Maerehia of Rai'atea and Taha'a

14. The Hon. Chief of Vaiari

7. The Hon. Mahuti of Vaiari

References

Michel Brun, Edgar Tetahiotupa (2007). Eteroa: mythes, légendes et traditions d'une île polynésienne. Gallimard. ISBN 2070777081.

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, Société des Océanistes, 671p. (édition originale Ancient Tahiti, Honolulu 1928) de Teuira Henry.

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[Eteroa-1] Michel Brun, Edgar Tetahiotupa (2007). Eteroa: mythes, légendes et traditions d'une île polynésienne. Gallimard. ISBN 2070777081.