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Keliiokaloa

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Reign
  
1525 – 1545

Issue
  
Kukailani

Died
  
1545 (aged 44–45)


Name
  
Keliiokaloa Keliiokaloa

Successor
  
Keawenuiaumi

Predecessor
  
Umi-a-Liloa

Father
  
Umi-a-Liloa

Keli‘iokaloa (1500 – 1545) was the Aliʻi nui of the island of Hawaiʻi from 1525 to 1545. He was the sovereign king or chief of the island of Hawai’i.

Family

Keli’iokaloa was the eldest son of Umi-a-Liloa, Ali’i Aimoku of Hawaiʻi, by his third wife and half-sister, Aliʻi Kapukini-a-Liloa, daughter of Liloa, Ali’i Aimoku of Hawaiʻi.

He succeeded on the death of his father in the year 1525.

In 1545 he was deposed by his younger brother Keawenuiaumi.

Keli‘iokaloa married first Makuwahineapalaka, then Helu’anu’u and Hika’alani. He died in 1545, having had issue, a son Aliʻi Kukailani and daughter Kaohukiokalani.

References

Keliiokaloa Wikipedia


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