Lonomaʻaikanaka

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Lonomaʻaikanaka was a Queen consort of Hawaii island in ancient Hawaii, and High Chiefess of Hilo by birth. She was also a High Chiefess of Maui.[1]

Family[edit]

Lonomaʻaikanaka was a daughter of High Chief Ahu-a-ʻI, belonging to the powerful and widely spread ʻI family of Hilo, and his wife, Piʻilaniwahine II, the daughter of King Kalanikaumakaowākea of Maui. She was first married to High Chief Hulu and bore him two children. First born was High Chief Kekahimoku (aka Kekohimoku) and second born was High Chiefess Kauhiokaka (aka Kauhiokeka). See also Kumuhonua, Hawai’i State Archives.

Lomoma'aikanaka married secondly to King Keaweʻīkekahialiʻiokamoku and their son was Kalaninuiamamao.[2]

Kauhiokaka, daughter of Lonoma'aikanaka and Hulu, had issue with her step-father Keaweʻīkekahialiʻiokamoku and become the mother of Kekaulike-i-Kawekiuonalani, who would marry her half-uncle & half-sibling, Kalaninuiamamao.[3]

The senior or elder line of descent of Lonoma'aikanaka are the descendants of Kekahimoku, progenitor the House of Unauna. Kekahimoku was paternal great great grandfather of high chiefess of Lahaina, Lucy Kapōhaiali'iokamāmalu Koi'i Unauna. Via her second son Kalaninuiamamao and also via her daughter Kauhiokaka, Lonoma’aikanaka was grandmother and great-grandmother of Keawemauhili. Lonoma’aikanaka was also great-grandmother of Chiefess Kapiolani, who accepted Christianity.[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Edith K. McKinzie and Ishmael W. Stagner (1986). Hawaiian Genealogies: Extracted from Hawaiian Language Newspapers. Vol. 2. University of Hawaii Press. p. 101. ISBN 0-939154-37-4.
  2. ^ Kamakau, Samuel (1992) [1961]. Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii (Revised ed.). Honolulu: Kamehameha Schools Press. ISBN 0-87336-014-1.
  3. ^ Family tree of Hawaiian chiefs Archived 2014-05-03 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Abraham Fornander, An Account of the Polynesian Race: Its Origin and Migrations, Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1969