Umayamma Rani
| Aswathi Thirunal Umayamma | |
|---|---|
| Attingal Mootha Thampuran | |
Queen Umayamma | |
| Regent of Venad | |
| Reign | 1677 - 1684 |
| Predecessor | Atham Thirunal Aditya Varma |
| Successor | Karthika Thirunal Ravi Varma |
| Queen of Attingal | |
| Reign | ? - 1678 (as junior queen) 1678 - 1698 (as senior queen) |
| Predecessor | Makayiram Thirunal |
| Successor | Princess adopted in 1688 |
| Died | Valiyathura |
| Issue | (All adopted) Karthika Thirunal Ravi Varma, Aditya Varma, Rama Varma, Karthika Thirunal Umayamma |
| House | Attingal Swarupan of the House of Kupaka |
| Religion | Hinduism |
"Aswathi Thirunal" Umayamma, known as Queen Umayamma or Queen Ashure (Aswathi), (died 1698), was the regent queen of Venad (Venatu) in southern India from 1677 to 1684 on behalf of her young nephew (son of her older sister Senior Queen Makayiram Thirunal) Ravi Varma. She also served as the Junior Queen of Attingal under Senior Queen Makayiram Thirunal and subsequently as the Senior Queen of Attingal.
While Ravi Varma ruled as the king of Trippapoor (1684-1718), Umayamma continued retention of the sovereign power over his swaroopam. She was able to negotiate independently with the English and Dutch factors in Kerala. The English East India Company secured factory sites at Vilinjam (Brinhjohn), and Ruttera (either Valiyathura or Vettoor) from Umayamma in 1688. Permission to construct a fort at Anjengo was secured from the queen in 1694. Umayamma also concluded an agreement with the Danes at Edava, near Attingal
Queen Umayamma built the administrative foundation on which her grandson Marthanda Varma built modern Travancore. Dutch commander Henrik van Rheede (who met Umayamma in 1677) writing in 1694, concludes that Attingal could summon an army of 30,000 men at the time. Umayamma died in 1698 in Valiyathura.