Kalola-a-Kumukoa explained

Kalola-a-Kumukoa
Spouse:Kamehameha I
Kekuamanoha
Father:Kumukoa
Mother:Kaulahoa
Issue:Kahiliʻōpua[1]
Religion:Hawaiian religion

Kalola-a-Kumukoa,[2] [3] [4] [5] also known as Kalolawahilani, also known simply as Kalola, was the first wife of Kamehameha I. She was a high chiefess (Aliʻi) of Hawaii.

Family

Her father was Kumukoa (Kumu-ko'a-a-Keawe, also called Kumuhea),[6] a son of Keaweʻīkekahialiʻiokamoku.[7] Both Keawe and Kumukoa were among the remains moved from the Royal tomb to the Royal Mausoleum in the Nuuanu Valley.[8] Her mother was Ka'ulahoa.[9] [10] Her brother was Kalaikuʻahulu, also a son of Kumukoa.[11] [12]

She was first wife of the king Kamehameha I before the Battle of Mokuʻōhai. The couple lived with Kamehameha's brother in Hilo along with the god , who Kamehameha had possession of, given by his uncle Kalaniʻōpuʻu.[13] [14]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Ahlo . Charles . Johnson . Rubellite . Walker . Jerry . 2000 . Kamehameha's Children Today . 978-0-9967803-0-8.
  2. Mookini . Esther T. . Keopuolani: Sacred Wife, Queen Mother, 1778–1823 . Hawaiian Journal of History . Honolulu . Hawaiian Historical Society . 32 . 1998 . 10524/569 . 10 .
  3. Book: McKinzie. Edith Kawelohea. Stagner. Ishmael W.. Hawaiian Genealogies: Extracted from Hawaiian Language Newspapers. 2. 1986. University of Hawaii Press. Honolulu. 0-939154-28-5. 13.
  4. Web site: Robert Wilcox sounds off, 1898. 4 September 2014.
  5. Web site: The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865–1918, May 27, 1898, Image 5. 27 May 1898. 5.
  6. Book: Catherine C. Summers. Molokai: A Site Survey. 1971. Department of Anthropology, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. 9. 978-0-598-15110-0.
  7. Book: David Kalakaua (King of Hawaii). The Legends and Myths of Hawaii: The Fables and Folk-lore of a Strange People. 1888. C.L. Webster. 440.
  8. Book: Walter F. Judd. Palaces and Forts of the Hawaiian Kingdom: From Thatch to American Florentine. 1975. Pacific Books, Publishers. 157. 978-0-87015-216-0.
  9. Book: Ahlo. Charles. Johnson. Rubellite Kawena Kinney. Walker. Jerry. Kamehameha's Children Today. 2000. 38. Native books inc.. 978-0-9967803-0-8.
  10. Web site: Kekoolani Genealogy of the Descendants of the Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii. Kekoolani. Dean. kekoolani.org. Kekoolani Family Trust . November 18, 2008.
  11. Book: Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. 1920. Bishop Museum Press. 360.
  12. Book: Abraham Fornander. Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore .... 1920. Bishop Museum Press. 322.
  13. Book: Fornander. An Account of the Polynesian Race: Its Origins and Migrations, and the Ancient History of the Hawaiian People to the Times of Kamehameha I. Trübner & Co. 1880. Stokes. John F. G.. 2. 203. Abraham Fornander.
  14. Book: Moke Kupihea. The Cry of the Huna: The Ancestral Voices of Hawaii. 10 May 2005. Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. 978-1-59477-642-7. 112.