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King Ari'imate Teurura'i (1824 – 14 April 1874) was a member and founder of a Polynesian royal family (House of Teurura'i) which reigned on the Tahitian island of Huahine and Mai'ao during the 19th century. In Tahitian, his name translates as "sovereign-demised" and "the-sky-forest" respectively.

He was installed as king of Huahine in 1852 until his deposition in 1868.

Family

Ari'imate Teururai was born at Huahine in 1824. He was the second child and only son of Chief Taaroaari'i and Tematafainu'u vahine. He was the paternal grandson of Mahine Tehei'ura Puru, who reigned as King of Huahine from 1800 to 1815 but abdicated in favor of his niece Teri'itaria II instead of his own son. In his early years, he ruled as the chief of Tefareri'i.

Founder of the Teururai dynasty

On the 26 of December 1851, Teriitari'a II was deposed while she was at Tahiti with her adopted son Teratane Teriitaria Pomare. The main dignitaries chose Ariimate to be king. He was installed as king of Huahine and Maia'o on January 5, 1852. He took the reign name of Teururai.

Sixteen years later, on July 7, 1868, he was deposed by the chiefs in favour of his wife.

Marriage and children

He married in 1840 Princess Maerehia a Tamatoa, heiress presumptive to her father King Tamatoa IV of Ra'iatea and Taha'a, and had twelve children:

• Princess Temari'i a Teururai (1848–1891), Queen of Huahine.
• Princess Tapiria a Teururai (1850–1888).
• Crown Prince Marama a Teururai (1851–1909), Head of the royal family of Huahine and father of Teha'apapa III.
• Princess Vaira'atoa a Teururai, she had issue.
• Prince Ioata,Ari'imate,Teururai a Teururai (1853–1905), or Tamatoa VI, last king of Rai'atea and Tahaa.He had five children.
• Prince Teri'iteporouara'i a Teururai (1857–1899), his family established in Tahiti.
• Prince Fatino,Maraeta'ata a Teururai (1859–1884), he had eight children.
• Princess Turaiari'i,Haamairia a Teururai (1862–?), she had two children through an irregular union.
• Princess Teri'inavahoro'a Teururai (1863–1918), she had eleven children.
• Princess Tefa'aora vahine a Teururai (1868–1928), she had two daughters.

Their children remain member to the royal family of the former kingdom of Huahine-Maia'o and Raiatea-Taha'a since the end of the monarchy.

Ari'imate died at Huahine on 14 April 1874.

Ancestry

See also

• List of monarchs of Huahine
• List of monarchs of Tahiti
• List of monarchs who lost their thrones in the 19th century (Rai'atea)

References

1. Teuira Henry, John Muggridge Orsmond (1928). Ancient Tahiti. Vol. 48. Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. p. 254.
2. "SOCIETY ISLANDS. - Outrage upon Royalty--The King of Huahine Compelled to Sign a Treaty with France--Troubles at Tahiti". New York Times. 16 October 1868. p. 7.

• 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 & Co Editeurs, 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.
• Huahine aux temps anciens, Cahiers du Patrimoine et Tradition orale, B.SAURA, édition 2006.
• Chefs et notables au temps du protectorat: 1842–1880, Société des Etudes Océaniennes, Raoul TEISSIER, réédition de 1996.

External links

• Genealogy

• 1824 births
• 1874 deaths
• Huahine royalty
• 19th-century monarchs in Oceania