- Kamokuiki
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Kamokuiki Spouse Alapai-maloiki
Kamanawa IIIssue Caesar Kaluaiku Kapaʻakea
KekahiliFather High Chief Kane-pa-wale Mother High Chiefess Uaua Born c. 1795 Died September 27, 1840 (aged 45)
HonoluluBurial Kawaiahaʻo Church[1] Kamokuiki (c. 1795 – September 27, 1840) was grandmother of the last two ruling monarchs of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
Life
She was born about 1795. She married High Chief Kamanawa II and had son Caesar Kapaʻakea (1815–1866) with him. A daughter named Kekahili was born in about 1830. Kamanawa found the daughter was not his, but of Chief Alapai-maloiki, and Kamanawa had a son by another woman named Aulani.[2]
She divorced her husband Kamanawa in 1840, but Kamanawa was not allowed to remarry while she was alive. She died in Honolulu on September 27, 1840. Kamanawa and accomplice Lonoapuakau were found guilty of her murder through poison. They were hanged in the Honolulu Fort in October. This incident left a mark on her son Kapaʻakea and his son David Kalākaua. The conflict with conservative American missionaries would become a crisis after Kalākaua took the throne as King, followed by his sister Queen Liliʻuokalani.[3]
The House of Kawananakoa descends from her daughter Kekahili. The House of Kalākaua descends from her son Kapaʻakea.[4]
References
- ^ http://pononohawaiiponoi.com/page10/page10.html
- ^ Kapikauinamoku (1955). "High Chief Kamanawa II Is Hanged for Murder". The Honolulu Advertiser. http://ulukau.org/elib/cgi-bin/library?e=q-0sohr-000Sec--11en-50-20-frameset-book-Kepookalani-1-011utfZz-8&a=d&d=D0.4.61&toc=0.
- ^ William De Witt Alexander (1894). Kalakaua's Reign: A Sketch of Hawaiian History. Hawaiian gazette. p. 3. http://books.google.com/books?id=0ams0WOs75gC&pg=PA3#v=onepage&f=false.
- ^ Christopher Buyers. "Kauai Genealogy". Royal Ark web site. http://www.royalark.net/Hawaii/kauai.htm. Retrieved 2009-12-06.
Categories:- 1795 births
- 1840 deaths
- Royal Family of Hawaii
- House of Kawananakoa
- House of Kalākaua
- People murdered in Hawaii
- Hawaiian royalty stubs
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