| Kekūʻiapoiwa I | |
|---|---|
| Spouse | Kekaulike Kauakahiakua |
| Issue | Kamehamehanui Aiʻluau Kahekili II Kalola Pupuka-o-Honokawailani Kekelaokalani |
| Father | Kaulahea II |
| Mother | Kalanikauleleiaiwi |
Kekū‘iapoiwa I was a chiefess of the island of Hawaiʻi and Maui. She was also known as Kekū‘iapoiwa Nui ("Kekū‘iapoiwa the Great"). Her full name was Kekū‘iapoiwa-nui Kalani-kauhihiwakama Wanakapu.
Biography
Kekū‘iapoiwa was born as a daughter of the High Chiefess Kalanikauleleiaiwi, who lived in the late 18th century and early 19th century. She was thus a niece of the king Keaweʻīkekahialiʻiokamoku and granddaughter of the queen Keakealaniwahine.
Her father was the king Kaulahea II of Maui. She remained on Maui and married her half-brother Kekaulike, founding the Kekaulike Dynasty of Maui which produced many chief politicians and nobles in the early days of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
She was also a sister of Alapainui and Haʻae and aunt of Kekuiapoiwa II, mother of the great king Kamehameha I.
She was a mother of Kamehamehanui Aiʻluau, and Kahekili II and grandmother of Kalanikūpule, the last of the longest line of ʻAliʻi Aimoku in the Hawaiian Islands. There is a theory that Kahekili was a biological father of Kamehameha I. Her daughter by Kekaulike was Kalola who married Kalaniʻōpuʻu and his half-brother Keōua and had Kīwalaʻō and Kekuiapoiwa Liliha respectively. Kekuiapoiwa had another daughter by the name of Kekelaokalani by Kauakahiakua, a distant cousin of her first husband, and Kekelaokalani was the mother of Kamehameha I's wife Peleuli.
References
- Abraham Fornander (1880). An Account of the Polynesian Race: Its Origin and Migrations. Vol. 2. Republished by Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1969. pp. 131–132.