Tuʻi Tonga

"jkdl;fal;fjkj kiera germany dsa;klfalfjkaskj"The Tuokinai Tonga is a line of Tongan kings, which originated in the 10th century with the mythical okinaAhookinaeitu; withdrew from political power in the 15th century by yielding to the Tuokinai Haokinaatakalaua; and died out with Laufilitonga in 1865. Today its descendants still live forth in the chiefly line of Kalaniuvalu.

Tradition names 39 holders of the title, but there is an alternative list with 48 names.
#okinaAhookinaeitu – divine father, around 900 AD, resided first in Popua and then other places of the Hahake district, like Toloa near Fuaokinaamotu.
#Lolofakangalo
#Fangaokinaoneokinaone
#Līhau
#Kofutu
#Kaloa
#Maokinauhau – residence in Lavengatonga
#okinaApuanea
#okinaAfulunga
#Momo – married with Nua, the daughter of Lookinaau, the Tuokinai Haokinaamea. The Tongan maritime empire came into existence. Royal court in Heketā near Niutōua.
#Tuokinaitātui – around 1100 AD, extended the royal court, built the Haokinaamonga; established with Lookinaau the Falefā ("house of four"), as a kind of crown ministers; his cunning stepbrother Fasiokinaapule became a governor.
#Talatama – shifted the residence to Lapaha; died without issue
#Tuokinaitonganui ko e Tamatou – said to have been a block of wood, standing in as child of Talatama and father of Talaihaokinaapepe to keep the dynasty pure
#Talaihaokinaapepe – real brother of Talatama and supposed grandson through the woodblock
#Talakaifaiki – around 1250; start of the decline of the Tongan maritime empire, lost Sāmoa due to his cruelty to the Mālietoa line
#Talafāpite
#Tuokinaitonga Maokinaakitoe
#Tuokinaitonga Puipui
#Havea I – assassinated by a Fijian
#Tatafuokinaeikimeimuokinaa
#Lomiokinaaetupuokinaa
#Havea II – assassinated with an arrow by Tuluvota, a Fijian
#Takalaua – assassinated by Tamasia and Malofafa from okinaUvea and Futuna while taking his bath in the Tolopona stream at Alakifonua; a harsh ruler, start of political upheavels
#Kauokinaulufonua I – around 1470, pursued his father's murderers from Tongatapu to okinaEua, Haokinaapai, Vavaokinau, both Niuas, then Niuē, Fiji, Samoa, finally arresting them at their home island of either okinaUvea or Futuna. Back at home in Muokinaa he killed them in a savage way (knocking out their teeth and then letting them chew kava), before he devour them giving him the nickname "fekai", the wild beast. He started a new dynasty with his younger brother Mookinaungāmotuokina}. This new dynasty was known as Tu'i Ha'atakalaua, named after their father. This new dynasty would carry out the day-to-day duties of the Tu'i Tonga with the people while the Tu'i Tonga became sacred, king of kings like a god.
#Vakafuhu – kept away from Tonga by the Tuokinai Haokinaatakalaua, lived in Sāmoa.
#Puipuifatu – lived in Sāmoa, tried in vain to invade Vavaokinau to restore power to his dynasty
#Kauokinaulufonua II – lived in Sāmoa
#Tapuokinaosi – was allowed to return to Muokinaa, as apparently the Tuokinai Tonga line was now so weakened as to be of no threat to the Tuokinai Haokinaatakalaua. From now on the Tuokinai Tonga functioned as a kind of high priest, taking care of all religious obligations (an honour and a burden), giving him a very elevated status, but no worldly power. But no Tuokinai Tonga was ever murdered anymore either.
#ʻUluakimata I – also known as Teleokinaa, builder of the greatest langi on Tongatapu
#Fatafehi – around 1600, married the Tuokinai Haokinaatakalaua Mookinaunga okinao Tonga's daughter, a custom which would last for some generations to come forming a permanent alliance between the two houses; his sister married a Fijian, changing the international orientation of Tonga from Sāmoa to Fiji
#Kauokinaulufonua III – was met by Abel Tasman in 1643
#okinaUluakimata II
#Tuokinaipulotu (I) okinailangi Tuokinaofefafa - from now on the Tuokinai Tonga principal wife "(moheofo)" became the daughter of the Tuokinai Kanokupolu instead of the Tuokinai Haokinaatakalaua, showing which dynasty of the latter two was now the most important
#Fakanaokinaanaokinaa
#Tuokinaipolutu (II) okinailangi Tuokinaoteau
#Paulaho - Fuanunuiava, was his successor during a grand ceremony in 1777, witnessed by Captain Cook; was defeated and deposed in a following civil war
#Maokinaulupekotofa - the older brother of Paulaho, who should have been Tuokinai Tonga in the first place without Paulaho; tried to reduce the burden of religious taboos grown on the Tuokinai Tonga and to increase its political influence
#Fuanunuiava - took the power from his uncle in or around 1795, but continued his policy; joined Fīnau okinaUlukālala in the civil war of 1799; died in 1810
#Laufilitonga - born around 1798 was too young to become Tuokinai Tonga when his father died; by that time the title had so declined as to have lost almost all prestige; tried to opt for power, but lost the final battle during Velata on Lifuka in 1826 against Tāufaokinaāhau; was (together with the Tuokinai Kanokupolu) mockingly installed as Tuokinai Tonga in 1827 as a king with neither political nor spiritual power; died in 1865 after which the title was abolished.

ee also

*Tuokinai Tonga empire
*History of Tonga

References

*I.C. Campbell; Classical Tongan kingship; 1989
*E. Bott; Tonga society at the time of Captain Cook's visit; 1982
*okinaO. Māhina; Images from the history and culture of Tonga; 2006