Nyaicili Boki Raja

Dona Isabel Nyaicili Boki Raja
Regent of Ternate
Reign1545–1546
PredecessorHairun
SuccessorHairun
Diedpost 1556
FatherAl-Mansur of Tidore
ReligionIslam, Christianity

Nyaicili Boki Raja (died after 1556) was a Queen of Ternate in Maluku Islands who served as regent of the kingdom in 1545-1546.[1] She was later baptized by the Catholic missionary Francis Xavier and took the name Dona Isabel. Being the daughter, wife, sister and mother of kings, she had a potentially bridge-building function between the competing Malukan spice Sultanates Ternate and Tidore, but was repeatedly sidelined by the brutal policy of early European colonialism in Maluku.

  1. ^ Georg Schurhammer (1977) Francis Xavier: His Life, his times - vol. 2: India, 1541-1545. Rome: The Jesuits Historical Institute, p. 702.[1]