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Tapuʻosi – was allowed to return to Muʻa, as apparently the Tuʻi Tonga line was now so weakened as to be of no threat to the Tuʻi Haʻatakalaua. From now on the Tuʻi Tonga functioned as a kind of high priest, taking care of all religious obligations (an honour and a burden), giving him a very elevated
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Fatafehi – around 1600, married the Tuʻi Haʻatakalaua Moʻunga ʻo Tonga's daughter, a custom which would last for some generations to come forming a permanent alliance between the two houses; his sister married a Fijian, changing the international orientation of Tonga from
334:. He allowed his younger brother Moʻungāmotuʻa to found a new dynasty, the Tuʻi Haʻatakalaua, named after their father. This new dynasty would carry out the day-to-day duties of the Tuʻi Tonga with the people while the Tuʻi Tonga became sacred, king of kings like a god. 405:
Maʻulupekotofa - the older brother of Paulaho, who should have been Tuʻi Tonga in the first place without Paulaho; tried to reduce the burden of religious taboos grown on the Tuʻi Tonga and to increase its political
419:- born around 1798 was too young to become Tuʻi Tonga when his father died; by that time the title had so declined as to have lost almost all prestige; tried to opt for power, but lost the final battle during 326:, finally arresting them at their home island of either ʻUvea or Futuna. Back at home in Muʻa he killed them in a savage spectacle (knocking out their teeth and then letting them chew 661: 372:
to Fiji. Was tattooed in Samoa by master tattooists in two sessions and received the nickname Fakauakimanuka ("Twice to Manuʻa") in commemoration of these rituals.
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should the original line of kings perish without a natural successor). Tu'i Pelehake surrendered the title and its privileges to his father-in-law, King
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observed and recorded his accounts of the status and authority of the Tuʻi Tonga kings during his visits to what he described as the Friendly Isles.
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Tuʻitonganui ko e Tamatou – said to have been a block of wood, standing in as child of Talatama and father of Talaihaʻapepe to keep the dynasty pure
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became the daughter of the Tuʻi Kanokupolu instead of the Tuʻi Haʻatakalaua, showing which dynasty of the latter two was now the most important
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Talakaifaiki – around 1250; start of the decline of the Tongan maritime empire, lost Samoa due to his cruelty to the
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Tongan society at the time of Captain Cook's visits : discussions with Her Majesty Queen Salote Tupou
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Fuanunuiava - took the power from his uncle in or around 1795, but continued his policy; joined
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Tradition names 39 holders of the title, but there is an alternative list with 48 names.
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Paulaho - Fuanunuiava, was his successor during a grand ceremony in 1777, witnessed by
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Talaihaʻapepe – real brother of Talatama and supposed grandson through the woodblock
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Tuʻipulotu (I) ʻilangi Tuʻofefafa - from now on the Tuʻi Tonga principal wife
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Vakafuhu – kept away from Tonga by the Tuʻi Haʻatakalaua, lived in Samoa.
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status, but no worldly power. But no Tuʻi Tonga was ever murdered again.
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Kauʻulufonua I – around 1470, pursued his father's murderers from
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E. Bott; Tonga society at the time of Captain Cook's visit; 1982
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Havea II – assassinated with an arrow by Tuluvota, a Fijian
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titles to establish the modern-day institution of the
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Puipuifatu – lived in Samoa, tried in vain to invade
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Takalaua – assassinated by Tamasia and Malofafa from
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Tongan kings
ʻAhoʻeitu
Tuʻi Haʻatakalaua
Sanualio Fatafehi Laufilitonga
George Tupou I
Tu'i Kanokupolu
Tu'i Vava'u
Tu'i Ha'apai
Tongan Crown
James Cook
ʻAhoʻeitu
Hahake
Fuaʻamotu
Lavengatonga
Momo
Tongan maritime empire
Niutōua
Tuʻitātui
Haʻamonga
Talatama
Lapaha
Mālietoa
ʻUvea
Futuna
Alakifonua

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