Individual Details

LINEAGE
Conflict: McKinzie, Hawaiian Genealogies, vol 1 p 14 lists Kamehamehanui as Kahekili's father, but vol 2 p 37 identifies them as brothers.
LIFE
A. "He is said to have been born in the rough Hawaii channel (Kai o 'Ale-nui-haha)" (Genealogy Kekahuna Family, M445-2-28, p 6).
B. He became ruler of Maui following the death of his brother Kamehamehanui (Fornander, An Account of the Polynesian Race, vol 2 p 149). in 1776, from Kahekilinuiahumanu in (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 82). Ruler of Maui, Molokai, and Oahu (McKinzie, Hawaiian Genealogies, vol 1 p 88). He was called "the Iron King of Maui" (McKinzie, Hawaiian Genealogies, vol 2 p 37). He ruled Maui for 27 years and Oahu for 9 years, "from the year 1782 when the battle of Honolulu took place" (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 82).
C. "From the years 1775 to 1779 there was continual fighting between Ka-lani-opu'u of Hawaii and Kahekili" (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 69). In one battle circa 1776, the forces of Kahekili had the invading army of Kalaniopuu surrounded. At a point of desperation Kalaniopuu's mate and sister to Kahekili, Kalola who was fighting alongside her mate, sent out their son Kiwalao in full regalia of a kapu chief and accompanied by Kahekili's half-brothers Kameeiamoku and Kamanawa to find Kahekili and plead for their lives. Kahekili had compassion on his relatives and let them live (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 87-88).
D. He butchered men, women, and children during a rebellion on Oahu (Kalakaua, The Legends and Myths of Hawaii, p 400). Killed the chiefs and tortured the chiefesses (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 138). "His cruelty to chiefs and people on Oahu is notorious" (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 167).
E. Contemporaries: After Kalaniopuu's death, Kahekili sought to retake Hana and eastern Maui from the chiefs of Hawaii, which included the grandsons of Keawe - Mahi-hele-lima, Ka-loku-o-ka-maile, Nae-ole, Malua-lani, Ka-loku. All were killed in this battle in 1782 except Nae-ole who escaped (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 115-116).
Contemporaries: When Captain Cook arrived in January 1778, "Ka-eo was ruling chief of Kauai, Ka-hahana of Oahu and Molokai, and Ka-hekili of Maui, Lanai, and Kahoolawe" (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 92).
Fought battles with Kalaniopuu, Puna, Keeaumoku, Mahihelelima, Kahahana, Kamehameha, from (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 166).
F. Had only 2 mates (Fornander, An Account of the Polynesian Race, vol 2 p 215).
Conflict: others are identified.
G. He claimed that Kamehameha I was his son and that he named him after his brother Kamehamehanui (Dibble, History of the Sandwich Islands, p 54,57-58).
H. Fragment: Other children Kahekilinuiahumanu (k), Kaunohoikapelapuokakae (McKinzie, Hawaiian Genealogies, vol 2 p 119).. Other warrior sons: Kalani-nui-ulu-moku, Pe'ape'a, Ka-ua-kapeku-lani (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 135).
I. Captain Portlock of the King George vessel described Kahekili on December 1, 1786 as "about fifty years old" (Fornander, An Account of the Polynesian Race, vol 2 p 230).
J. He joined Kaeokulani, ruling chief of Kauai, in fight against Kamehameha. Following an undecisive battle on Hawaii, he returned to Maui. After ruling for 3 years on Maui, he fell ill and returned to Oahu, where he died in 1793 at 87 years old (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 159-162,166). Bingham, A Residence of Twenty-One Years in the Sandwich Islands, p 80 indicates he ruled Maui 1773-1793.
Conflict: Died in July, 1794 at Waikiki, Oahu. "he could not well have been less than eighty years old, and was probably some years older" (Fornander, An Account of the Polynesian Race, vol 2 p 260). Dibble, History of the Sandwich Islands, p 48 states he was ruler of Maui, Molokai, Lanai, and Oahu during Captain Vancouver's visit in January 1794.

Alt name		KahekilinuiaKakae
Alt name		Kahahekili Kalaninuiwahaikamoku
Alt name		Kahekilinuiahumanu
Alt name		Kahekili Ahumanu
Alt name		Kahekiliahumanu
Alt name		KahekilinuiiAhumanu
Alt name		Kahekiliahuula

Spouse	Kauwahine ( - )
Child	Kalola ( - )
Child	Kuiapoiwa ( - )
Child	Kailikauoha ( - )
Child	Kalanikupule (1760 - 1795)
Child	Koalaukani ( - )

Spouse	Luahiwa ( - )
Child	Manonokauakapekulani ( - )
Child	Kahekilinuiahumanu ( - )
Child	Kaunohoikapelakapuokakae ( - )

Spouse	Kapalaoa ( - )
Child	Keakakaiuli ( - )

Spouse	Kealohikikaupea ( - )
Child	Kaneiahaulaahilani ( - )
Child	Kahalemamalaolena ( - )
Child	Kahawalu ( - )
Child	Kalaniewahaikamoku ( - )

Spouse	Kanikaleo ( - )
Child	Kaikealiiikekahipiookamoku ( - )

Child

Kukanaloa ( - )

Father	Kekaulike (1664 - 1736)
Mother	Kekuiapoiwa ( - )
Sibling	Kamehamehanui ( - 1765)
Sibling	Kalola (1735 - 1790)
Sibling	Kuhooheiheipahu ( - )
Sibling	Manuailehua ( - )
Sibling	Kawailani ( - )