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| birth_date = | birth_place =Honolulu, Oahu | death_date = | death_place =Kailua-Kona, Hawaii | burial_date = | burial_place =Mauna Ala Royal Mausoleum |}} Ruth Luka Keanolani Kauanahoahoa Keelikōlani (February 9, 1826〔Keelikōlani considered her Birthday to be on February 9, 1826 but scholars such as A. Spoehr have suggested it was actually June 17, 1826. Kristin Zambucka, ''The High Chiefess: Ruth Keelikolani'' (1992)〕–May 24, 1883), was a member of the Kamehameha family, the founding dynasty of the Kingdom of Hawaii. She served as Royal Governor of the Island of Hawaii. As primary heir to the Kamehameha family, Ruth became a landholder of what would become the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate funding the Kamehameha Schools. Unlike most of the rest of the royal family, Keelikōlani retained traditional Hawaiian cultural practices. Her name Keʻelikōlani means ''leaf bud of heaven''. Kū Kia‘i Mauna ==Family== Keelikolani's mother was High Chiefess Kalani Pauahi (1804–1826), daughter of High Chief Pauli Kaōleiokū and his first wife High Chiefess Keoua-wahine. Her mother died giving birth to her on February 9, 1826, after her mother had married on November 28, 1825 to the man believed to possibly be her natural father, Mataio Kekūanāoa (1793–1868). She was considered to have two fathers, called a ''poolua'' ancestry (meaning roughly "two heads of the family"). High Chief Kahalaia Luanuu (died 1826), Governor of Kauai island also claimed her as his daughter. Kahalaia was a nephew of King Kamehameha I, the son of the king's half-brother Kalaʻimamahu and High Chiefess Kahakuhaakoi Wahinepio from Maui. Keelikolani's traditional but now unorthodox birth was one reason she was regarded outside the legitimate birth of Christian Hawaiian nobility. Her claims to be a Kamehameha descendant cannot be questioned since her mother was granddaughter of King Kamehameha. However, King Kamehameha III established in the Constitution of 1840 that eligibility to be monarch required a Christian-style legitimate birth. Ruth was adopted and raised by Kamehameha's most powerful queen, Kaahumanu, who acted as regent under kings Kamehameha II and III. Although her paternity was questionable, Mataio Kekūanāoa claimed her as his own natural child. He took her into his household after Kaahumanu's death and included her in his will and inheritance. This made her the half-sister of King Kamehameha IV and King Kamehameha V and Princess Victoria Kamāmalu. Her first husband, from 1841, was William Pitt Leleiohoku I (1821–1848), Governor of Hawaii, former husband of Princess Harriet Nahienaena, and son of High Chief William Pitt Kalanimoku the Prime Minister of Kamehameha I, and Chiefess Kiliwehi. Soon after she married Leleiohoku, her 27-year-old husband died in a measles epidemic. In June 2, 1856, she married her second husband, Isaac Young Davis (c. 1826–1882), son of George Hueu Davis and his wife Kahaanapilo Papa (therefore grandson of Isaac Davis). Standing at 6 ft 2 in, he was considered rather handsome by many including foreign visitors such as Lady Franklin and her niece Sophia Cracroft. Their marriage was an unhappy one, and they divorced in 1868. The early loss of their son did not help.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Keelikōlani」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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