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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.
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 ...
Potatau era Kīngitanga flag: The flag hoisted at Ngāruawāhia on the proclamation of Pōtatau Te Wherowhero as Māori king, drawn in 1863. It depicts some of the stars of the Southern Cross, as well as a cross in the upper left canton. 1858–1860: Potatau Hei Kingi flag: A flag used during the reign of Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, the first ...
Tāwhiao (then Matutaera) as a young man. In 1858 Tāwhiao's father, Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, was installed as the first Māori King (taking the name Pōtatau), his purpose being to promote unity among the Māori people in the face of Pākehā encroachment.
The same day, the Māori King, Tūheitia Potatau Te Wherowhero VII, issued a royal proclamation calling for a “national hui” – a coming together of the country’s indigenous people, to ...
Pōtatau Te Wherowhero (later the first Māori king) and his Waikato iwi retreated here and stayed for several years after they were defeated by musket-armed Ngāpuhi led by Hongi Hika in a battle at Matakitaki in 1822. Te Wherowhero's son Tāwhiao, the second Maori King, was born at Orongokoekoeā in about 1825. [1] [2]
On Thursday, Sept. 5, Kiingi Tuheitia Pōtatau Te Wherowhero VII — who reigned as the Māori King from 2006 — was laid to rest after he died on Aug. 30 at the age of 69, per the BBC. His death ...
Te Rata was invested with the kingship on 24 November 1912, about two weeks after his father's death. As was the custom for a new Māori King, he assumed the title name of Pōtatau Te Wherowhero , beginning a kingship dogged by ill health and controversy.