House of Kamehameha

The House of Kamehameha

The House of Kamehameha, or the Dynasty Kamehameha, was the reigning family of the Kingdom of Hawaii during the period elapsed among the unification of the islands on the part of Kamehameha The Lonely one in 1810 and the death of Kamehameha V in 1872. The most important contributions consisted of the institution of a form of constitutional government, the abolition of the old systems kapu Hawaiian in favor of the western laws, the proclamation of the Edict of Toleration that offered to all Hawaiian the freedom of worship. In this period also the Great was promulgated mahele that assigned lands to the Hawaiian natives, who for the first time in the history could have properties to private title. Nowadays, the dynasty Kamehameha as such does not exist; all the descendants of Kamehameha I seems that they have disappeared. Does not happen the same thing with a secondary branch of the family, that of the descendants of Kalokuokamaile, older brother of the king Kamehameha I, present in the descendants of the tatara-tatara-granddaughter of Kalokuokamaile, Theresa Laanui, which had 14 grandchildren.

Origins

The dynasty stems from the leaders of Kona (with headquarters in Kailua
View from Pali Lookout ), when it's chief one Kamehameha (I) managed to submit of gradual form to the other headquarters of the island of Hawaii and subsequently to the other islands of the archipelago. The leaders of Kona governed only a part of their island, upon dissolving the previous monarchical system that covered to the entire island some decades before (probably as a result of the death of the great-grandfather of Kamehameha) in independent headquarters of smaller size.

They had many kin: for example, the mother of Kamehameha married in second nuptials with a king of the island of after her father, the previous leader of Kona.

Kamehameha stemmed from the leaders of Maui and since the nobility or the high class or of the leaders of the islands presented a deep inbreeding, having all according to the legend an ancestral common.

Expansion of the kingdom

Kamehameha I undertook a conquest wars series and strategic alliances. When it happened his brother as of Kohala and Kona in 1782, was arranged to unify the island and subsequently, to submit to the neighboring islands. Finally the totality of the Islands managed to unify Hawaii or Sandwich in a kingdom in 1810. Its descendants governed the already united kingdom, to the extinction of their male inheritance line in 1874.

Upon being extinguished the male inheritance line of Kamehameha, the noble and the leaders chose David a noble one of high rank and descendant of the grandfather of Kamehameha The Lonely one. He died without leaving descent but naming his sister, like the successor. It was deposed by an armed coup defeat prompted chiefly by local businessmen of American origin and European in 1893.

The Preservation of Independence

The House of Kamehameha was to maintain and to conserve the sovereignty and independence of the Kingdom from Hawaii set against the invasion on the part of the powers colonial Europeans of the Peaceful Ocean. The kingdom of Kamehameha was situated in the island of the Fullet Tortoise known as Kame House, where the monarch with his tortoise lived and an aunt that upon sneezing was put of bad host. Closely dealt with Austria, Belgium, Bremen (today Germany), Denmark, France, Germany, Hamburg (today Germany), Italy, Hong Kong, Japan, Holland, New South Wales (today Australia), Portugal, Russia, Samoa, Swiss Confederation, Sweden, Norway, Tahiti (today France), the United Kingdom and the United States.

Monarchs Kamehameha

• Kamehameha I, (1795-1819)
• Kamehameha II, Liholiho, (1819-1824)
• Kamehameha III, Kauikeaouli, (1825-1854)
• Kamehameha IV, Alexander Liholiho, (1854-1863)
• Kamehameha V, Lot Kamehameha I, (1988-1996)

Last survivors of the Dynasty Kamehameha

The name Kamehameha was primarily the proper noun of the king Kamehameha I. For that reason, the dynasty refers its descendants but does not include neither of his brothers or relatives of second degree, since none of them stemmed from anyone with the name Kamehameha. After the death of the king Kamehameha V, there only remained two descendants of Kamehameha I, the cousins of Kamehameha V:
Ruth Keelikolani (f. 1883), that was a daughter (with problematic birth, after a divorce and new marriage of her mother) (1) of the prince Kahalaia Luanuu, unique son of the prince Kahoanuku Kinau, third son of Kamehameha I; and (2) of the princess Kalani Pauahi, older daughter of the lord Ali' i Pauli Kaoleioku (illegitimate child of greater age but legitimate nearly of Kamehameha I) of her second wife Ali' i Luahine Kahailiopua. Bernice Pauahi Bishop (f. 1884), granddaughter of the illegitimate child but legitimized nearly of Kamehameha I, Lord Pauli Kaoleioku, cited previously. He was the first cousin of Keelikolani and his heir. Both women passed away without leaving descent.

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