Māweke

The Māweke dynasty took its name from a chief of the highest rank who, according to Hawaiian chants, sailed to Oʻahu from Tahiti in the 1000s.

Famed as a kahuna priest and master of magic, Māweke erected a temple to the god Kanaloa on Oʻahu and through his sons Mulielealiʻi and Keaunui became the ancestor of the island's ruling line. Mulielealiʻi's son Kumuhonua was the first known king of Oʻahu.

The dynasty kept the high chieftainship for generations: around 1290 the descendant Nāwele reconquered Oʻahu from a rival cousin, but after the death of the later chief Haka the family was displaced by the House of Maʻilikūkahi. Oʻahu was conquered by Kahekili II of Maui in 1783 and then by Kamehameha I after the Battle of Nuʻuanu in 1795.