Dona Isabel Nyaicili Boki Raja | |
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Regent of Ternate | |
Reign | 1545–1546 |
Predecessor | Hairun |
Successor | Hairun |
Died | post 1556 |
Father | Al-Mansur of Tidore |
Religion | Islam, 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.