Kalanikeʻeaumoku was an

aliʻi The aliʻi were the traditional nobility of the Hawaiian islands. They were part of a hereditary line of rulers, the ''noho aliʻi''. Cognates of the word ''aliʻi'' have a similar meaning in other Polynesian languages; in Māori it is pronoun ...

(noble) of

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of the Kona district and part of Kohala district and grandfather of

Kamehameha I Kamehameha I (; Kalani Paiʻea Wohi o Kaleikini Kealiʻikui Kamehameha o ʻIolani i Kaiwikapu kauʻi Ka Liholiho Kūnuiākea; to May 8 or 14, 1819), also known as Kamehameha the Great, was the conqueror and first ruler of the Kingdom of Hawaii ...

Family

His mother was Kalanikauleleiaiwi and his father was Keaweʻīkekahialiʻiokamoku. He would ''noho'' (cohabitate) with Kamakaʻīmoku of the ʻI family of the Kaʻū district, the partner of his half brother Kalaninuiamamao and have a son named

Keōua Keōua Kalanikupuapaʻīkalaninui Ahilapalapa, sometimes called Keōua Nui ("Keōua the Great") (died c. 1750s–1760s) was an Ancient Hawaiian noble and the father of Kamehameha I, the first King of united Hawaiʻi. He was progenitor of the Ho ...

who would father

. With his half brother Kamakaimoku would father Kalaniʻōpuʻu, the half brother to Keōua becoming the progenitor for the

House of Kamehameha The House of Kamehameha ''(Hale O Kamehameha)'', or the Kamehameha dynasty, was the reigning royal family of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Kingdom of Hawaii, beginning with its founding by Kamehameha I in 1795 and ending with the death of Kamehameha V in ...

and the

House of Kalokuokamaile The House of Laanui (''Hale O Laanui'' in the Hawaiian language) is a family of heirs to the throne of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Kingdom of Hawaii collateral to the House of Kamehameha. Both houses are branches of the House of Keoua, House of Keōua N ...

. His second wife was the High Chiefess Kailakanoa. His sons by Kailakanoa were Kanekoa and Kahai. Only his son Kanekoa's descendants survive from his second marriage; most notable of these are the House of Kawānanakoa, through her granddaughter Poʻomaikelani, the wife of Elelule Laʻakeaelelulu of Hilo, and mother of Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole. He was descended from Aliʻi Nui ʻ

Umi-a-Liloa ʻUmi-a-Līloa (fifteenth century) was the supreme ruler Aliʻi nui of Hawaii, Aliʻi-ʻAimoku (High chief of Hawaiʻi Island) who inherited Hawaiian religion, religious authority of the Hawaiian Islands from his father, High Chief Līloa, whose li ...

, connecting also to the chiefs of Maui, Oahu, Kauai. His name translates as the "Great Heavenly Island Climber". His father was the ruler of the entire Big Island of Hawaiʻi. In addition to Kona, Keawe also gave him dominion over parts of the Kohala District, which was mostly controlled by the powerful and somewhat independent Mahi family. His brother Kalaninui`amamao became ruler of the Kaʻū district of the island. After his father's death in 1725, he and his older brother, Kalaninuiamamao, engaged in warfare for the throne of the Island of Hawaiʻi. While the conflict ensued between the two brothers, Alapa`inui-a-kauaua was able to take advantage of the situation and usurped the throne. Alapa`inui was Keeʻaumoku's half-brother, sharing his mother, Queen Kalanikauleleiaiwi. They were also brothers of Ha'ae-a-Mahi, father of the Chiefess Kekuiapoiwa II, the mother of Kamehameha the Great. Because of the conflict between Keʻeaumoku and Kalaninuiamamao, the island remained divided into three to six separate territories until the unification by Aliʻi Nui

References

{{reflist Royalty of Hawaii (island) Hawaiian military personnel House of Keawe House of Līloa