{{Short description|Hawaiian chiefess and queen (fl. 19th century)}} {{Infobox royalty | name = Peleuli | image = Entrevue de l'expedition de M. Kotzebue avec le roi Tammeamea dans l'ile d'Ovayhi, Iles Sandwich.jpg | image_size = 220px | caption = Royal Court of Kamehameha I at Kailua-Kona, c. 1816 | spouse = Kamehameha I<br />Kaweloʻokalani | issue = Maheha Kapulikoliko<br/>Kahōʻanokū Kīnaʻu<br/>Kaikoʻokalani<br/>Kiliwehi<br/>Kīnaʻu <small>''(hānai)''</small> | full name = Peleuli-i-Kekela-o-kalani | father = Kamanawa | mother = Kekelaokalani-a-Kauakahiakua| }}
'''Peleuli''' (fl. 19th century), formally '''Peleuli-i-Kekela-o-kalani''', was a Queen consort of the Kingdom of Hawaii as a wife of king Kamehameha I.
==Biography== She was a daughter of High Chief Kamanawa and High Chiefess Kekelaokalani.<ref name="Fornander">{{cite book |title= An Account of the Polynesian Race: Its Origins and Migrations, and the Ancient History of the Hawaiian People to the Times of Kamehameha I |year=1880 |publisher=Trübner & Co |volume= 2 |author= Abraham Fornander |author-link= Abraham Fornander |editor= John F. G. Stokes | url= https://books.google.com/books?id=tcQNAAAAQAAJ }}</ref>{{rp|320}} Her father, along with his brother Kameʻeiamoku, were known as one of the "royal twins" who helped Kamehameha I come to power and served as advisors.<ref name="kingdom1">{{cite book |last= Kuykendall |first=Ralph Simpson |author-link= Ralph Simpson Kuykendall |title=The Hawaiian Kingdom 1778–1854, Foundation and Transformation |url= http://www.ulukau.org/elib/cgi-bin/library?c=kingdom1&l=en |volume=1 |location= Honolulu |publisher= University of Hawaii Press |year= 1965 |orig-year=1938 |isbn= 0-87022-431-X }}</ref>{{rp|53}} Her mother was the daughter of High Chief Kauakahiakua, son of Lonomakahonua and Kahapoohiwi,<ref name="Kamakau"/>{{rp|127}} and High Chiefess Kekuʻiapoiwa I, once the wife of King Kekaulike of Maui.<ref name="Wilcox">{{cite news |author= Robert William Wilcox |author-link= Robert William Wilcox |title= Some {{sic|Gene|ology|hide=y}} — R.W. Wilcox Corrects Statements in Ex-Queen's Book — Ancestry of Liliuokalani — Only Surviving Members of Royal School Destined to Be Rulers of Hawaii |newspaper= Hawaiian Gazette |date= May 27, 1898 |url= http://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10524/3150/1/1898052701.pdf |page=5 |access-date= April 14, 2012 }}</ref> She had three brothers: Koahou, Noukana and Amamalua, and a half-sister Piʻipiʻi Kalanikaulihiwakama.<ref name="Kamakau"/>{{rp|221}}<ref>{{Hawaiian Dictionaries | Kekaulike Dynasty Held Great Power, Prestige |dic=maui |id=D0.4.33 }}</ref>
In 1920, Elizabeth Kekaaniau published a book recounting the history of the descendants of Keōua. In the book, Elizabeth Kekaaniau stated that Piʻipiʻi Kalanikaulihiwakama and Peleuli were the daughters of Keōua and Kekuʻiapoiwa II, therefore full-blood sisters of Kamehameha I.<ref name=Pratt>{{cite book |title= History of Keoua Kalanikupuapa-i-nui: father of Hawaii kings, and his descendants |author= Elizabeth Kekaaniauokalani Pratt |author-link= Elizabeth Kekaaniau |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=UgouAAAAYAAJ |orig-year= 1920 |publisher= T. H., republished by Kessinger Publishing |year= 2009 |isbn= 978-1-104-76661-0 }}</ref>{{rp|18}} Many sources also incorrectly call her an aunt of Kamehameha I because of Queen Liliuokalani's autobiography ''Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen'', which confused Peleuli's mother Kekelaokalani-a-Kauakahiakua with Kekuʻiapoiwa II's mother Kekelakekeokalani-a-Keawe.<ref name="Wilcox"/><ref name="story">{{cite book |title=Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen, Liliuokalani |year=1898 |author=Queen Liliʻuokalani |author-link=Liliuokalani |url= https://archive.org/details/hawaiisstorybyh00goog |publisher=Lee and Shepard, reprinted by Kessinger Publishing, LLC |orig-year=1898 |isbn=978-0-548-22265-2 }}</ref> Hawaiian historian Samuel Kamakau stated that Peleuli was the aunt of Keōpūolani, whom she served as an attendant.<ref name="Kamakau"/>{{rp|184}}
Peleuli was given in marriage to Kamehameha I by her father after the former's victory at the Battle of Mokuʻōhai while Kamanawa took Kamehameha's mother Kekuʻiapoiwa II as his wife, cementing an alliance between their families. She was his second wife because up to that point, Kamehameha had only one other wife Kalola-a-Kumukoʻa.<ref name="Kamakau"/>{{rp|311}}<ref name="Mookini">{{cite journal |hdl= 10524/569 |title= Keopuolani: Sacred Wife, Queen Mother, 1778-1823 |journal= Hawaiian Journal of History |publisher=Hawaiian Historical Society |volume=32 |author= Esther T. Mookini |year= 1998 |pages=1–24 }}</ref>{{rp|11}}<ref>{{Hawaiian Dictionaries | Peleuli I Was Another Consort of Great King |dic=royal |id=D0.4.98 }}</ref>
According to Kamakau, she was considered his fifth favorite wife, behind Kaʻahumanu, Kalākua Kaheiheimālie, Kahakuhaʻakoi Wahinepio, and Keōpūolani, his highest ranking consort.<ref name="Kamakau"/>{{rp|184}} With Kamehameha I, she was the mother of four children, including: Maheha Kapulikoliko, a daughter, Kahōʻanokū Kīnaʻu, a son, who married Wahinepio; Kaikoʻokalani, a son, who married Haʻaheo Kaniu; and Kiliwehi, a daughter, who married of Kamehamehakauokoa<ref name="Fornander"/>{{rp|320}}<ref name="Kamakau"/>{{rp|208}}<ref name="Genealogies1">{{cite book |title= Hawaiian Genealogies: Extracted from Hawaiian Language Newspapers |year=1983 |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |volume=1 |page=9 |author= Edith Kawelohea McKinzie, Ishmael W. Stagner |isbn = 0-939154-28-5 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=-YPNBdfvmDUC&q=Paaluanui}}</ref><ref name="LostSon">{{cite journal |journal= Hawaiian Journal of History |title= Was There A Lost Son of Kamehameha? |author= Thomas G. Thrum |author-link= Thomas G. Thrum |hdl= 10524/96 |year= 1916 |publisher=Hawaiian Historical Society |pages=44–51}}</ref> and probably Kalanimoku.<ref name="Piano">{{cite journal |journal= Hawaiian Journal of History |title= Kalanimoku: Iron Cable of the Hawaiian Kingdom, 1769-1827 |author= Barbara Del Piano |hdl= 10524/12237 |year= 2009 |volume= 43 |publisher= Hawaiian Historical Society |pages=1–28}}</ref> Her grandchildren were Kekauʻōnohi by Kīnaʻu and Leleiohoku I by Kiliwehi. Her progenies with Kamehameha were his eldest children, with the exception of his illegitimate son Pauli Kaʻōleiokū by his aunt Kānekapōlei, but they were passed over in the line of succession in favor of his descendants by Keōpūolani and Kalākua Kaheiheimālie because of their superior rank.<ref name="Kamakau"/>{{rp|315}}
She later married to Kaweloʻokalani, her husband's younger half-brother and the son of Keōua and Kamakaeheikuli. This marriage occurred while Kamehameha was still alive and the couple lived in the King's household.<ref name="Kamakau"/>{{rp|311}} She and Kaweloʻokalani had no children, although one source says that Kaukuna Kahekili was the son of Kaweloʻokalani and Peleuli.<ref name="Dibble">{{cite book |author=Sheldon Dibble |author-link=Sheldon Dibble |title= History of the Sandwich Islands |publisher= Press of the Mission Seminary |year= 1843 |location= Lahainaluna |url= https://archive.org/details/historysandwich00dibbgoog }}</ref><ref name="Fragments">{{cite book|last1=Ii|first1=John Papa|author-link1=John Papa ʻĪʻī|last2=Pukui|first2=Mary Kawena|author-link2=Mary Kawena Pukui|last3=Barrère|first3=Dorothy B.|title=Fragments of Hawaiian History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qcW0AAAAIAAJ|edition=2|year=1983|publisher=Bishop Museum Press|location=Honolulu|isbn=978-0-910240-31-4}}</ref>{{rp|154}} They adopted (''hānai'') the youngest daughter of Kamehameha I and Kalākua Kaheiheimālie. She named the child Kīnaʻu after her own son and took her back to the island of Hawaiʻi after Kamehameha moved his capital back to Kailua-Kona.<ref name="Kamakau">{{cite book|last=Kamakau|first=Samuel|author-link=Samuel Kamakau|title=Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii|url=http://www.ulukau.org/elib/cgi-bin/library?c=chiefs&l=en|edition=Revised|year=1992|orig-year=1961|publisher=Kamehameha Schools Press|location=Honolulu|isbn=0-87336-014-1}}</ref>{{rp|346}} Another ''hānai'' child and namesake was Elizabeth Peleuli II, who became the ancestor of the Crowningburg family.<ref>{{Hawaiian Dictionaries | Peleuli II Brought Up In Kamehamehaʻs Court |dic=maui |id=D0.5.16 }}</ref>
After Kamehameha I's death, his son Liholiho succeeded him as Kamehameha II and they were both included as a part of his court.<ref name="Kamakau"/>{{rp|221,250}} The last mention of her or her husband states that they moved to Lahaina on the island of Maui, which had become the new capital, in the 1820s.<ref name="Kamakau"/>{{rp|262}}<ref name="Maui">{{cite book |author= Elspeth P. Sterling |title= Sites of Maui |year=1998 |publisher=Bishop Museum Press |isbn=0-930897-97-8 |page= 42 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=esxyAAAAMAAJ }}</ref>{{rp|42}} Her husband Kawelo died around 1824,<ref name="Kalanimoku">{{cite journal |journal= Hawaiian Journal of History |title=Notes & Queries: Kalanimoku's Lost Letter |author= J. Susan Corley; Puakea M. Nogelmeier |hdl= 10524/12255 |year= 2010 |volume= 44 |publisher= Hawaiian Historical Society |pages=91–100}}</ref><ref name="Marin">{{cite book |author=Gast |first=Ross H. |title=Don Francisco De Paula Marin: The Letters and Journals of Francisco De Paula Marin |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |year=2002 |isbn=0-945048-09-2 |editor=Conrad |editor-first=Agnes C. |editor-link=Agnes C. Conrad |page=272}}</ref> and she probably died soon after if she had not already predeceased him.
==Ancestry== {{ahnentafel |collapsed=yes |align=center |boxstyle_1=background-color: #fcc; |boxstyle_2=background-color: #fb9; |boxstyle_3=background-color: #ffc; |boxstyle_4=background-color: #bfc; |boxstyle_5=background-color: #9fe; |1= 1. '''Peleuli''' |2= 2. Kamanawa |3= 3. Kekelaokalani |4= 4. Keawepoepoe |5= 5. Kanoena |6= 6. Kauakahiakua |7= 7. Kekuʻiapoiwanui |8= 8. Lonoikahaupu (=#10) |9= 9. Kalanikauleleaiwi (=#11, 15) |10= 10. Lonoikahaupu (=#8) |11= 11. Kalanikauleleaiwi (=#9, 15) |12= 12. Lonomakaihonua |13= 13. Kahapoʻohiwi |14= 14. Kaulahea II |15= 15. Kalanikauleleaiwi =#9, 11 |16= 16. Kauakahilau =#16 |17= 17. Kuluina =#17 |18= 18. Kaneikaiwilani =#22, 30 |19= 19. Keakealaniwahine =#23, 31 |20= 20. Kauakahilau =#20 |21= 21. Kuluina =#21 |22= 22. Kaneikaiwilani =#18, 30 |23= 23. Keakealaniwahine =#19, 31 |24= 24. Lonohonuakini (=#28) |25= 25. Kalanikauanakinilani (=#29) |26= |27= |28= 28. Lonohonuakini (=#24) |29= 29. Kalanikauanakinilani (=#25) |30= 30. Kaneikaiwilani =#18, 22 |31= 31. Keakealaniwahine =#19, 23 }}
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