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Tūheitia suffered ill health in 2013 and announced that he was establishing Te Kaunihera a te Kiingi (the King's Council) and deputising his elder son Whatumoana to act in his stead. [ 1 ] [ 6 ] As the King's representative, Whatumoana was given the title Te Whirinaki a te Kīngi , the title held by Te Wherowhero Tāwhiao while he acted for ...
Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, the first Māori King. Several North Island candidates who were asked to put themselves forward declined; [9] in February 1857, a few weeks after a key intertribal meeting in Taupō, Wiremu Tamihana, a chief of the Ngāti Hauā iwi in eastern Waikato, circulated a proposal to appoint as king the elderly and high-ranking Waikato chief Te Wherowhero, and a major meeting ...
Pōtatau Te Wherowhero (died 25 June 1860) was a Māori rangatira who reigned as the inaugural Māori King from 1858 until his death. A powerful nobleman and a leader of the Waikato iwi of the Tainui confederation, he was the founder of the Te Wherowhero royal dynasty.
New Zealand's Maori King Tuheitia Pootatau Te Wherowhero VII died peacefully on Friday morning at age 69, according to a statement released by his representatives. "The death of Kiingi Tuheitia is ...
The election of the eighth Māori monarch took place from 3 to 5 September 2024, following the death of King Tūheitia. The Tekau-mā-rua (Tūheitia's privy council) convened a meeting of tribal leaders from throughout New Zealand to chose his successor by consensus. They chose Ngā Wai Hono i te Pō, Tūheitia's youngest child and only daughter.
The letter acknowledges King Charles III’s ties to the late Maori king, Tuheitia, and expresses hope for a strong relationship with the new Maori queen, Nga Wai Hono i te Po.
The Maori king Tūheitia Paki was a namesake of the ancestor Tūheitia. Māhanga is a key ancestor of Waikato, as all the Waikato iwi trace their descent from him. Ngāti Māhanga however, is a particular reference to the descendants of his sons: Kiekieraunui, Tupanamaiwaho, Tonganui, Ruateatea and Atutahi. [ 3 ]
Dame Te Atairangikaahu died in 2006 after 54 years of marriage. Paki's son Tuheitia Paki, succeeded his mother as Māori king. Paki had wanted a tombstone for his wife, but members of the royal family of Tainui, called kāhui ariki, are not permitted to have monuments at their graves. [2]