House of Kalākaua

House of Kalākaua
House of Kalākaua
Royal dynasty
	Coat of arms of the Hawaii
Parent house	House of Keawe
Country	Kingdom of Hawaii
Founded	1874
Founder	Kalākaua
Final ruler	Liliuokalani
Titles	King/Queen of Hawaii
Style(s)	"Majesty"; "Grace"
Estate(s)	ʻIolani Palace (seat)
Dissolution	1917
Deposition	1893 (deposed by a coup d'état)
Cadet branches	House of Kawānanakoa;

Collage showing King Kalākaua and family. Left to right from top: Queen Kapiʻolani, King Kalākaua, Princess Likelike, Queen Liliʻuokalani, Princess Kaʻiulani, and Prince Leleiohoku.

The House of Kalākaua, or Kalākaua Dynasty, also known as the Keawe-a-Heulu line,^[1] was the reigning family of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi between the assumption of King David Kalākaua to the throne in 1874 and the overthrow of Queen Liliʻuokalani in 1893. Liliʻuokalani died in 1917, leaving only cousins as heirs. The House of Kalākaua was descended from chiefs on the islands of Hawaiʻi and Kauaʻi, and ascended to the royal throne by election when the males of the House of Kamehameha died out. The torch that burns at midday symbolizes the dynasty, based on the sacred kapu Kalākaua's ancestor High Chief Iwikauikaua.

Origin[]

The dynasty was founded by Kalākaua but included his brothers and sisters who were children of High Chiefess Analea Keohokālole and High Chief Caesar Kaluaiku Kapaʻakea. Through Kapaʻakea's paternal grandmother Alapa'iwahine he was great-great-grandson of Chief Keaweʻīkekahialiʻiokamoku the great-grandfather (through another son) of Kamehameha I. Through Kapaʻakea's paternal grandfather Kepoʻokalani (who was also Analea's grandfather) he was descended from one of the nīʻaupiʻo royal twins Kameʻeiamoku. Analea was great-great-granddaughter of Chief Keaweʻīkekahialiʻiokamoku on her mother Kamaʻeokalani's side and on her father ʻAikanaka's father and mother's side she was descended from High Chief Haʻae-a-Mahi, the father of Kekuʻiʻapowa (the mother of Kamehameha). Also on her father's side she was descended from Keawe-a-Heulu. Many of their ancestors were collateral cousins of King Kamehameha I.

Fall of the House of Kalākaua[]

With the deposition of Queen Liliʻuokalani in 1893 the House of Kalākaua ceased to reign, and the death of the Princess Victoria Kaʻiulani in 1899 meant the loss of the last direct heir of the siblings of the reigning monarchs of House of Kalākaua. The main line of the dynasty thus ended when the deposed Queen Liliʻuokalani (who had abdicated and renounced) died in 1917. Their cousins came to be known as the House of Kawānanakoa, a branch of the House of Kalākaua, since they are relatives of King Kalākaua, descended from Prince David Kawānanakoa, eldest son of the princess Kūhiō Kinoike Kekaulike, who had died in 1908. The House of Kawānanakoa survives to modern times and at least two of its members have claims to the throne should the Hawaiian monarchy be revived.

Members[]

King Kalākaua (1836–1891)
Queen Liliʻuokalani (1839–1917)
Crown Princess Victoria Kaʻiulani (1875–1899)
Crown Prince William Pitt Leleiohoku (1854–1877)
Princess Miriam Likelike (1851–1887)
Princess Kaʻiminaʻauao (1845–1848)
Prince James Kaliokalani (1835–1852)
High Chief Caesar Kapaʻakea (1815–1866)
High Chiefess Analea Keohokālole (1816–1869)

Key- (k)= Kane (male/husband)
(w)= wahine (female/wife)
Subjects with bold titles, lavender highlighted, bold box= Direct bloodline
Bold title, bold, grey box= Aunts, uncles, cousins line
Bold title, bold white box= European or American (raised to aliʻi status by marriage or monarch's decree)
Regular name and box= makaʻāinana or untitled foreign subject

Kāneikaiwilani (k)

Kanalohanaui (k)

Keakealani (w)

Ahu-a-ʻI (k)

Piʻilani (w) II

Moana (k)

Lonoikahaupu (k)

Kalanikauleleiaiwi (w)

Kauauaʻamahi (k)

Keawe II (k)

Lonomaʻaikanaka (w)

Kauhiahaki (k)

Iliki-a-Moana (w)

Keawepoepoe (k)

Kanoena (w)

Haʻaeamahi (k)

Kekelakekeokalani (w)

Alapainui (k)

Keaka (w)

Keeaumoku Nui (k)

Kamakaimoku (w)

Kaeamamao (k)^[i]

Kaolanialiʻi (w)^[i]

Kameʻeiamoku (k)

Kamakaʻeheikuli (w)

Keōua (k)

Kahekili II (k)

Kekuiapoiwa II (w)

Ikuaʻana (w)

Heulu (k)

Moana (w)

Keaweʻopala (k)

Nohomualani (k)

Keaweaheulu (k)

Ululani (w)

Hakau (w)

Kanaʻina (k)

Kauwa (w)

Eia (k)

Kepoʻokalani (k)^[i]

Alapai (w)^[i]

Keohohiwa (w)

Keōpūolani (w)

Kamehameha I

Kalaniʻōpuʻu (k)

Kānekapōlei (w)

Kiʻilaweau (k)

Nāhiʻōleʻa (k)

Kahoʻowaha II (w)

Inaina (w)

Hao (K)

Kailipakalua (w)

Kamanawa II (k)^[i]

Kamokuiki (w)^[i]

ʻAikanaka (k)

Kamaeokalani (w)

Kaōleiokū (k)

Keoua (w)

Luahine (w)

Kalaʻimamahu

Kaheiheimālie

Kamehameha II

Kamehameha III

Kekūanāoʻa (k)

Kahalaiʻa
Luanuʻu (k)

Pauahi (w)

Kīnaʻu (w)

Pākī (k)

Kōnia (w)

Kanaʻina II

Kaʻahumanu III

Kapaʻakea
(1815 – 1866)^[i]

Keohokālole
(1816–1869)^[i]

Keʻelikōlani (w)

Kamehameha IV

Kamehameha V

Kaʻahumanu IV

Pauahi Bishop (w)

Bishop (k)

Lunalilo (k)

Kaliokalani
(1835–1852)^[i]

Kalākaua
(1836 - 1891)^[i]

Kapiʻolani
(1834–1899)

Liliʻuokalani
(1838 - 1917)^[i]

Dominis
(1832 - 1891)

Kaʻiulani
(1842–?)^[i]

Kaʻiminaʻauao
(1845 – 1848)^[i]

Cleghorn
(1835 – 1910)

Likelike
(1851 – 1887)^[i]

Leleiohoku II
(1854–1877)^[i]

Kaʻiulani
(1875–1899)^[i]

Notes:

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p Genealogy of Liliuokalani, page 400, appendix B, No. 2 Queen of Hawaii, Liliuokalani (1898). Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen. University of Hawaii Press. p. 400. Retrieved 29 September 2016. Kapaakea genealogy.

References[]

^ Van Dyke, Jon M. (2008). Who Owns the Crown Lands of Hawaiʻi?. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-8248-3211-7. OCLC 163812857.

External links[]

[Hawaii's_Story-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p Genealogy of Liliuokalani, page 400, appendix B, No. 2 Queen of Hawaii, Liliuokalani (1898). Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen. University of Hawaii Press. p. 400. Retrieved 29 September 2016. Kapaakea genealogy.

[1] Van Dyke, Jon M. (2008). Who Owns the Crown Lands of Hawaiʻi?. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. p. 96. ISBN 978-0-8248-3211-7. OCLC 163812857.

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