Tehaapapa III

Teha'apapa III
Queen regnant of Huahine
Queen of Huahine and Maiao
Reign 28 May 1893 – 15 September 1895
Predecessor Queen Tehaapapa II of Huahine
Successor Monarchy abolished in 1897 for French Third Republic
Spouse Prince Téri'i-té-vae-ara'i a Mai
Sir Tu-ari'i-hi'o-noa
Issue
Hereditary Prince Tupuna a Mai
11 others children
Full name
Princess Téri'i-na-va-horo'a of Huahine
House House of Teurura'i
Father Prince Marama Teurura'i
Mother Princess Tétua-marama of Rurutu
Born 1 August 1879(1879-08-01)
Téfareri'i, Huahine
Died April 1917, 27(27-04-1917)
Faré, Huahine
Burial Faré, Huahiné

Princess Teri'i-na-vaha-roa (1 August 1879 – 27 April 1917), was a tahitian Queen who reigned on the kingdom of Huahine and Maia'o from 1893 to 1895.

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Biography

Princess Teri'i-na-vaha-roa Teri'itari'a or Te-ha'apapa III, is a member of a royal tahitian dynasty, the deposed royal family Teururai of Huahine. As a tahitian Princess, she became Queen of Huahine. (b. at Fare, 8 August 1879 - d. at Fare, 27 April 1917).

She was the last Queen of Huahine from 1893 to 1895.

She was the eldest daughter of Marama Teri'i-fa'atau-a-Te-'uru-rai, Prince Regent of Huahine by his wife Tetuanuimarama a Te-u-ru-ari'i, Princess of Rurutu.

She was crowned with the reign name of Te-ha'apapa III, 1893.

Deposed when Huahine was annexed by the French, September 1895.

Marriage

She married first at Fare 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

Titulary

Monarchy abolished in 1895

Ancestry

See also

List of monarchs of Tahiti

French Polynesia

List of ruler of Huahine

Tehaapapa III
Born: 1879 Died: 1917
Preceded by
Queen Tehaapapa II
Queen of Huahine
1893–1895
Succeeded by
Third French Republic