Namahana Piia

Lydia Nāmāhāna Piʻia
Portrait of Nāmāhāna Piʻia as "Queen of the Sandwich Islands", published in Otto von Kotzebue's A New Voyage Around the World, 1830.
Governor of Oahu
In office
1824  1829?[1]
Preceded by Oliver Holmes
Succeeded by Boki
Personal details
Born Hawaii
Died 1829
Spouse(s) Kamehameha I
Gideon Peleioholani Laanui
Parents Keeaumoku Pāpaiahiahi
Namahanaʻi Kaleleokalani

Lydia Nāmāhāna Piʻia (c. 1787 – 1829[1]) was a wife of King Kamehameha I of Hawaii. She was the daughter of Keʻeaumoku Pāpaʻiahiahi, and her sisters Kaʻahumanu and Kalākua Kaheiheimālie were also Kamehameha's wives. Kamehameha and Kaʻahumanu later arranged Piʻia to marry Gideon Peleioholani Laanui, who was ten years her junior. They were married by Hiram Bingham I in a Christian ceremony.[2]

Nāmāhāna Piʻia also served as Governor of Oahu.

Ancestry

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Oahu
  2. Elizabeth Kekaʻaniauokalani Kalaninuiohilaukapu Pratt (2009) [1920]. Daniel Logan, ed. History of Keoua Kalanikupuapa-i-nui: father of Hawaii kings, and his descendants. Honolulu: republished by Kessinger Publishing. p. 46. ISBN 978-1-104-76661-0.
Preceded by
Oliver Holmes
Royal Governor of Oahu Succeeded by
Boki