Individual Details

LINEAGE
Conflict: Pukui, Hawaiian Genealogies, p 78 and Peleioholani, Hms G1.10 lists parents as Keawemauhili and Ululani.
LIFE
A. Kapiolani means "the captive of heaven"
(Jarves, History of the Hawaiian and Sandwich Islands, p 214).
B. She was chief of Kaawaloa, Hawaii with her mate Naihe when he died in 1831 (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 306). "She became the magistrate over Kau & S. Kona (population between eight & ten thousand)" (Hawaiian Chiefs Biographical Abstract).
C. She and Naihe were part of Liholiho's court (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 250).
D. She was the "celebrated queen who defied the goddess Pele" (Liliuokalani, Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen, p 399). She walked 150 miles from Kealakekua to the volcano. She broke tabus and proclaimed Jehovah is the true God (Alexander, A Brief History of the Hawaiian People, p 189). She descended into Kilauea crater in December 1824 (Alexander, A Brief History of the Hawaiian People, p 322).
E. She was baptized a Christian in 1832 (Hawaiian Chiefs Biographical Abstract). "She became famed as a mother of righteousness, according to the word of God, and as a friend to the missionaries," (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 381).
F. Order of mates (Hawaiian Chiefs Biographical Abstract). Mate of Naihe 1809-1831 (Bingham, A Residence of Twenty-one Years in the Sandwich Islands, p xvi).
G. She died in Honolulu on May 5, 1841, "the same day of the year of her birth" (Kamakau, Ruling Chiefs of Hawaii, p 385).
Conflict: Oukah, Hawaiian Royal & Noble Genealogies, p 137 states death date as May 6, 1841 at Honolulu.

Birth	1781	Hilo, Hawaii
Death	5 May 1841
Alt name		Kapiolaninui

Spouse

Naihe ( - 1831)

Spouse

Alapai ( - )

Father	Keawemauhili ( - 1790)
Mother	Kikipaa ( - )
Sibling	Kaleiopuu ( - )
Sibling	Nawailau ( - )