Pili

The Pili line, or Hale o Pili, was the royal house of Hawaiʻi. Its founder Pilikaʻaiea, known as Pili, was said to have come from Upolu in Samoa or Uporu in Tahiti at the call of the high priest Paʻao, and was credited with bringing new skills in agriculture and fishing.

His descendants succeeded one another as Aliʻi nui of Hawaiʻi, including the warrior Kalaunuiohua, who in the 1300s conquered chiefs on Maui, Molokaʻi and Oʻahu before being captured by the king of Kauaʻi in the War of Kawelewele.

In the late 1400s the chief Līloa kept his royal compound in Waipiʻo Valley, and from his son ʻUmi-a-Līloa and the later rulers of the house every monarch of the eventual Kingdom of Hawaiʻi, including Kamehameha I, claimed descent.