Historical Collections of The Hawaiian Islands - Genealogies of Maui (Part 4)

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Historical Collections of The Hawaiian Islands
" Keepers of the Culture "
A study in time of the Hawaiian Islands
Genealogies of Maui
and stories told by the ancients.-- Part 4
by Darlene E. Kelley
November 3, 2000

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Genealogies of Maui
and stories told by the ancients.-- Part 4

As told by the ancients -- Maui -- part 4.

The temporal powers of the Hawai'i royal family lies in the House of
Kamehameha by virtue of the conqusts of Kamehameha and his subsequent
marriage to the sacred Niau-Pio Princess Keopuolani.

Kalokuokamaile married Kaloiokalani, and had Kaohelelani, a daughter who
married the chieftain Nuhi-o-Waima, and had two children, Laanui, a son,
and Kekaikkuihela, a daughter.
The daughter had no living descendants. Her only child Ulumaheihei [
Mrs. J.K. Young ], had no children.

Laanui married Theresa Owana Rives, a daughter of the secretary of
Kamehameha ll, They had two children. Gideon Kailipalaki and Elizabeth
Kekaaniau [ Mrs. Frank S. Pratt ]. Gideon Kailipalaki married first a
woman named Puohu [ Later Mrs. Carsley ] and had no childern with her.
His second wife was Kamaikaopa by whom he had Princess Theresa Owana
Kaohelelani Wilcox.

The eldest child and only royal son of King Kaulahea ll of Maui  was the
Prince Kelaulike [surnamed Kui-Hono-l-Kamoku] who succeeded to the
sovereighty of Maui at the death of hs father. This Prince, founder of
the last ruling dynasty of Maui, had five consorts of rank -- two of
them were his own sisters of half-blood. Through these consorts of
Kekaulike and their children, the power of Maui was made absolute
throughout the islands.

The ranking consort of Kekaulike and his ueen was his half-sister, the
Princess Kekuiapoiwa the Great, in whom was combined the sanctities of
both kingdoms of Maui and Hawai'i. His last consort was the Princess
Kahilipoiani, another half-sister. The two above mentoned were sisters
of full blood.

The second consort of the Prince Kekaulike was the High Chieftess Holau
of Hawai'i. She was the daughter of the High Chief Kawel-a-Aila and the
Chiefess Kauakahialiu-a-Kaiwi. Her paternal grandmothe was the Princess
Kaihikapumahana who was the daughter of Kaikilani the Great, the first
Queen Regant of Hawai'i. The father of Kaihikapumahana was the famed
Alii-Aimoku  [conquering Prince] of Hawaii'i, Lono- l-Kamakahiki, who is
often credited as the founder of the great Makahiki Games, the Hawaiian
Olympics.

The third consort of Kekaulike was the Princess Haalou of both Hawai'i
and Maui. her father was the Prince Haae-a-Mahi of Hawai'i, son of the
High Chief Kauauanui-a-Mahi and the sacred Kalani Kaulelea-lwi of the
House of Keawe. The Prince Haae was a younger half brother of the great
Alapai [ Mahi-l-Kauakahi], King of Hawai'i at the birth of Kamehameha.

The mother of the Princess Haalou was the Princess of Maui,
Kaleiamaoli-o-Kalani, the full blood sister of King Kekaulike. Haalou
had two sisters. The eldest was the Princess Kamakaeheukuli, who is the
mother of the Lunalilo and Kalaakaua families. The youngest was the
Princess Kekuiapoiwa ll, mother of the Kamehameha family.

The fourth consort of Kekaulike was the chieftess Kane-a-Lae of Molokai
who was also one of the consorts of the great King Keawe ll
[ surnamed l-Kekahialii-a-Kamoku ] of Hawai'i . This chieftess descended
from the famed Soveriegn Prince of Molokai, Lono-l-Kahikina, through his
first consort, the Chieftess Hina-L-Kalelaehu. As mentioned above the
last of the consorts of Kekaulike was his sister of half-blood, the
Princess Kahilipoilani. 

By these five consorts, King Kekaulike had 15 children, each who played
vital and very often critical parts in the revelation of Hawai'i's
destiny. In more ways that we can conside, the Kekaulike Dynasty of Maui
was the mightiest in island history. 

No other royal dynasty in the Hawaiian Islands since the first partition
of insular soverignty during the reign of the sacred Prince Paumakua
ever enjoyed tne power, might and prestige held by the Kekaulike dynasty
of Maui.

The princes and nobles of the Principality of Molokai were vassels of
the Kings of Maui. The Island of Lanai was their outright possession.

The ruling house of Maui invaded and conquered the Kingdom of Oahu and
overhrew the dynasty of Kakuhihewa-l-Kaleimanuia. Even the King of
Kauai-rendered by its mighty priests inviolate from war-like aggression-
was still invaded by the force of Maui.

Instead of a spear or warclub, the princes of Maui used a heart filled
with love. They sent their brother, the Prince Kaeo-Kulani of Maui, to
wed and thereby to rule the Queen-Regent Kamakahelei of Kauai.

Even on the great island Kingdom of Hawai'i was the power of Maui
manifested. The ranking Queen-consort of the great Kamehameha was the
sacred Princess Kekuiapoiwa ll, was a Maui princess. All of Kamahameha's
consorts of rank were Princesses of Maui and not of Hawai'i. These were
Keopuolani, Kaakua-Kaneiheimalie, Pelieuli and Kaahumanu. The
grandmother of Kamehameha lV and V as well as King Lunalilo was the
Princess Kalakaua of Maui
Of all of the latter monarchs of Hawai'i perhaps only the last two,
David Kaiakaua and his sister, Lydia Liliuokalani, were of the true
descent of Hawai'i and without close alliance to Maui. In all of the
other members of Hawai'i's royal lines the infusion of Maui blood was
very strong.

The Great Kamehameha lived many years, and as those years passed most of
the Hawaiian Chieftains who had helped him attain his power and throne
had died. Slowly, cautiously, and with the great cunning the chieftains
of Maui had taken these places vacated by death. At his death,
Kamehameha was surrounded by he princes of the Kekaulike Dynasty.

It was these who overturned the ancient religion and gods of Hawai'i and
thereby undermined the strength of the Hawaiian throne. They paved the
road which led to the downfall of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

King Kekaulike of Maui and his queen. the Princess Kekuiapoiwa the
Great, had three children. the eldest of these was a son, the Prince
Kamehamehanui [ surnamed Ai-Luau ].
This prince succeeded his father as the sovereign of Maui.