Kanealai

Kaneʻalai[1] (also known as Kane-a-La'e) was a Queen regnant of the Hawaiian island of Molokai, who lived in the 18th century. She ruled as Alii aimoku of Molokai.[2]

Biography

She was a daughter of Luahiwa II (of the reigning family of Kauai)[3] and Ka-ho'oia-a-Pehu.[4]

Kaneʻalai planted a mountain apple tree.[5]

She married Keaweʻīkekahialiʻiokamoku, the king of Hawaiʻi. They had four children.

After Keaweʻīkekahialiʻiokamoku died, Kaneʻalai became a wife of Kekaulike, the king of Maui. With him she had one daughter, Luahiwa, who married her half-brother Kahekili II.

It is probably because of Kaneʻalai that Kamehameha-nui, the son of Kekaulike and Kekuiapoiwa I, was raised as a young boy at Waialua, Molokaʻi, and because of her connection with Kekaulike that her son and grandsons and other chiefs of Moloka'i went to the help of Kamehameha-nui in his fight with Kalaniʻōpuʻu.[6]

References

  1. ↑ She was probably named after major god Kāne.
  2. ↑ Biographical Information of Hawaiian Ali‘i (Royalty), Chiefs, and other Important Persons
  3. ↑ The Kamehamehas
  4. ↑ Kane'alai
  5. ↑ Place names of Hawaii by Mary Kawena Pukui
  6. ↑ http://files.usgwarchives.org/hi/keepers/koc10.txt