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 queen by the same name at the time James Cook visited the island.

Teha'apapa III
Queen regnant of Huahine
Photograph by Jules Agostini, 1895.
Queen of Huahine and Maiao
Reign	28 May 1893 – 15 September 1895
Coronation	11 June 1893
Predecessor	Tehaapapa II
Successor	Monarchy abolished in 1895 for French Third Republic
Born	8 August 1879 Téfareri'i, Huahine
Died	27 April 1917 (aged 37) Fare, Huahine
Burial	Fare
Spouse	Téri'i-té-vae-ara'i a Mai Sir Tu-ari'i-hi'o-noa
Issue	Hereditary Prince Tupuna a Mai
Full name Princess Téri'i-na-va-horo'a of Huahine
House	House of Teurura'i
Father	Prince Marama Teurura'i of Huahine
Mother	Princess Tétua-marama of Rurutu

Biography

Te-ha'apapa III was a member of a royal Tahitian dynasty, the deposed royal family Teururai of Huahine.

As a Tahitian Princess, she became Queen of Huahine.

She was the last Queen of Huahine from 1893 to 1895. She was the eldest daughter of Marama Teururai, Prince Regent of Huahine by his wife Tetuanuimarama a Te-u-ru-ari'i, Princess of Rurutu.

She was crowned with the regnal name Te-ha'apapa III in 1893, and was deposed when Huahine was annexed by the French in September 1895.

Marriage

She married first at Fare on 15 May 1895 (divorced 6 August 1897) to His Highness Teri'i-te-vae-a-ra'i-a-Mai, a descendant of Ma'i, the Princely House of Bora Bora and secondly on 1900 to a native minor noble man called Tini-tua a Tu-ari'i-hi'o-noa .

She had one son by her first husband and eleven other natural children through a morganatic union with Tinitua-a-Tu-Ari'i-hi-ona.

She died at Fare, 27 April 1917.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Tehaapapa III

16. The Hon. Chief Mahine Te-hei-'ura of Huahine 8. The Hon. Chief Ta'aroa-ri'i of Huahine 17. The Hon. Chiefess Tao'a of Fareihi 4. King Ari'imate of Huahine 18. Me-hao 9. Té-mata-fainu'u vahine 19. Taura'a 2. Prince Marama Teurura'i of Huahine 20. King Tamatoa III of Ra'iatea and Taha'a 10. King Tamatoa IV of Ra'iatea and Taha'a 21. Princess Tura'iari'i-Ehe-Vahine of Huahine 5. Princess Maerehia of Ra'iatea and Taha'a 22. The Hon. Chief of Vaiari 11. The Hon. Chiefess Poatevarua Metua Teari'inoho Mahuta of Vaiari 1. Queen Teha'apapa III of Huahine 24. King Teuruari'i III of Rurutu 12. King Teuruari'i II of Rurutu 25. Tetanoi Tagnata 6. King Teuruari'i III of Rurutu 26. Fanaue Vahio Aroa 13. Api Apirouru Vahio 27. Ruatupua Tematua Moeterauri 3. Princess Tetuamarama of Rurutu 7. Temataurari'i a Tavita

See also

• French Polynesia
• Annexation of the Leeward Islands
• List of monarchs who lost their thrones in the 19th century

External links and sources

• Michel Brun, Edgar Tetahiotupa (2007). Eteroa: mythes, légendes et traditions d'une île polynésienne. Gallimard. ISBN 2070777081.
• Jean-François BARE, Tahiti, les temps et les pouvoirs. Pour une anthropologie historique du Tahiti post-européen, Paris, ORSTOM, 543 p.
• Eugène HANNI, Trois ans chez les Canaques. Odyssée d'un Neuchâtelois autour du monde. Lausanne, Payot & C° Éditeurs, 342p.,
• Teuira Henry, Tahiti aux temps anciens (traduction française de Bertrand Jaunez, Pars, Musée de l'Homme, Société des Océanistes, 671p. (édition originale Ancient Tahiti, Honolulu 1928)
• Bruno SAURA, La lignée royale des Tamatoa de Ra'iatea (îles Sous-le-Vent), Papeete, ministère de la Culture, 229 p.
• Bruno SAURA, Huahine aux temps anciens, Cahiers du Patrimoine [Savoirs et traditions] et Tradition orale, édition 2006.
• Raoul TEISSIER, Chefs et notables au temps du protectorat: 1842 - 1880, Société des Études Océaniennes, réédition de 1996.

Family

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