Boheyat

Boheyat (Jawi: بوحيات‎) or Abu Hayat (ابوحيات‎; c. 1514 – October 1529) was the third Sultan of Ternate in Maluku, whose largely nominal reign lasted from 1521 to 1529.

[3] After his demise, Boheyat was enthroned, but real power rested with the Queen Mother and the regent Kaicili (prince) Darwis or Taruwes, born from a co-wife of Bayan Sirrullah.

The Queen Mother feared that the crafty and enterprising Darwis would appropriate the Sultan's dignity, to which he had no custumary rights, by bonding the Portuguese.

[4] Two original letters in Arab script were issued in the name of Sultan Boheyat and addressed to the King of Portugal, dated 1521 and 1522.

[5] The Portuguese captain António de Brito began the construction of a fortress on Ternate in 1522, which was named São Jõao Bautista.

The other Malukan kingdoms also let themselves be involved in the rivalries between Spain-Tidore and Portugal-Ternate, since Bacan took Ternate's side and Jailolo on Halmahera supported Tidore.