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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.
Tūheitia Pōtatau Te Wherowhero VII GCCT KStJ KCLJ (born Tūheitia Paki; 21 April 1955 – 30 August 2024), crowned as Kīngi Tūheitia, reigned as the Māori King from 2006 until his death in 2024. He was the eldest son of the previous Māori monarch, Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu , and was announced as her successor and crowned on 21 ...
The death of Kiingi Tūheitia is a moment of great sadness for followers of Te Kiingitanga, Maaoridom and the entire nation. He kura kua ngaro ki tua o Rangi-whakamoe-ariki. Moe mai raa. (A chief who has passed to the great beyond. Rest in love.)
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 ...
Pūtini died unexpectedly on 22 March 1856. Following Pūtini's death, Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, the future Māori King, arranged for his body to be taken to Māngere, before being buried at Ihumātao. [3] Putini's tangi (funeral) was attended by roughly 800 people, and he was mourned by both Māori and Pākehā.
The son of kīngi Pōtatau te Wherowhero, Tāwhiao was elected the second Māori King after his father's death in 1860. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Unlike his unenthusiastic father, Tāwhiao embraced the kingship, and responded immediately to the challenge of ongoing Raukawa and Tainui support for Te Āti Awa during the First Taranaki War .
Ngāpuhi nobleman Te Ruki Kawiti (right) with Hōne Heke and his wife Hariata; Descendants of the Moriori who survived genocidal invasion by Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama; Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, prominent Waikato Tainui military commander who later was crowned the first Māori King; Te Rangihaeata's pā at Mana after the Ngāti Toa conquest ...
Whakaawi (Maori pronunciation: [ɸakaaːwi]) was a Māori woman of high birth in both the Ngāti Te Wehi tribe and Ngāti Mahuta tribe, [1] who was the senior wife of the chief Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, who died in 1860. [2] His other wives were Waiata, Raharaha and Ngāwaero. [2] Whakaawi gave birth to Tāwhiao at Orongokoekoea Pā, about 1825 ...