Lonomaʻaikanaka

Lonomaʻaikanaka was a Queen consort of Hawaii island in ancient Hawaii. She was also High Chiefess of Hilo by birth. She was also considered a Chiefess of Maui.^[1]

Family

Lonomaʻaikanaka was a daughter of High Chief Ahu-a-ʻI, belonging to the powerful and widely spread ʻI family of Hilo, and his wife, Piʻilaniwahine, the daughter of King Kalanikaumakaowākea of Maui.

She married King Keaweʻīkekahialiʻiokamoku and their sons were Kalaninuiamamao and Kekohimoku.

She was married to High Chief Hulu and bore him High Chiefess Kauhiokaka, who also married Keaweʻīkekahialiʻiokamoku and become the mother of Kekaulike-i-Kawekiuonalani, who would marry her half-uncle Kalaninuiamamao.^[2]

Through both her son and daughter, she was grandmother and great-grandmother of Keawemauhili. She was also great-grandmother of Chiefess Kapiolani, who accepted Christianity.^[3]

References

Family tree of Lonomaaikanaka

16. High Chief Kanaloaikaiwilenakapulehu               8. Keaweʻīkekahialiʻiokamoku of Hawaiʻi                       17. Keakealaniwahine of Hawaii               4. Prince Kalaninuiamamao of Hawaiʻi, Chief of Kau                             18. High Chief Ahu-a-Iʻ of Hilo               9. High Chiefess Lonomaaikanaka                       19. Princess Piʻilaniwahine of Maui               2. Keawemauhili of Hilo                                   20. High Chief Kanaloaikaiwilenakapulehu               10. Keaweʻīkekahialiʻiokamoku of Hawaiʻi                       21. Keakealaniwahine of Hawaiʻi               5. Kekaulike-i-Kawekiuonalani of Hawaiʻi                             22. High Chief Hulu               11. High Chiefess Kauhiokaka                       23. Lonomaʻaikanaka               1. Chiefess Kapiʻolani                                         6. High Chief Kameʻeiamoku                             3. Kekikipaa                                   7. one of his wives (uncertain which)

1. Edith K. McKinzie and Ishmael W. Stagner (1986). Hawaiian Genealogies: Extracted from Hawaiian Language Newspapers 2. University of Hawaii Press. p. 101. ISBN 0-939154-37-4.
2. Family tree of Hawaiian chiefs
3. Abraham Fornander, An Account of the Polynesian Race: Its Origin and Migrations, Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1969