Keawemauhili Explained

Keawemaʻuhili
Aliʻi Nui of Hilo
Native Lang1 Name1:Keawemauhili
House:House of Keawe
Father:Kalaninuiamamao
Mother:Kekaulike-i-Kawekiuonalani
Spouse:ʻUlulani
Kekikipaʻa
Issue:Kapiʻolani (chiefess)
Keaweokahikiona
Elelule Laʻakeaelelulu
Koakanu
Birth Date:c. 1710
Death Date:1790
Death Place:Hilo

Keawemaʻuhili (1710–1790) was an important member of the Hawaiian nobility at the time of the founding of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

He was a son of Kalaninuiamamao[1] and his half-sister Kekaulike-i-Kawekiuonalani.[2]

He first married Ululani, the Aliʻi Nui of Hilo, and then Kekikipaʻa, the daughter of Kameʻeiamoku and former wife of Kamehameha I. With his first wife he had sons Keaweokahikiona and Elelule Laʻakeaelelulu, and with his second wife, famous daughter Kapiʻolani (c. 1791) and son Koakanu.

His half-brother, King Kalaniʻōpuʻu, died in 1781. He joined with his nephew Keōua Kūʻahuʻula in the Battle of Mokuʻōhai to fight Kamehameha I. He escaped the defeat and returned to Hilo.

In 1790, Keawemaʻuhili broke a pact of neutrality he agreed to with his nephew by sending troops and resources to aid Kamehameha I’s war on Maui. In retaliation, Keōua Kūʻahuʻula waged war against Keawemaʻuhili and killed him at Alae in Hilopaliku.

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Notes and References

  1. [Abraham Fornander]
  2. Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History. 1920.