Tradition names 39 holders of the title, but there is an alternative list with 48 names. •
ʻAhoʻeitu – divine father, around 900 AD, resided first in Popua and then other places of the
Hahake district, like Toloa near
Fuaʻamotu. • Lolofakangalo • Fangaʻoneʻone • Līhau • Kofutu • Kaloa • Maʻuhau – residence in
Lavengatonga • ʻApuanea • ʻAfulunga •
Momo – married with Nua, the daughter of Loʻau, the Tuʻi Haʻamea. The
Tongan maritime empire came into existence. Royal court in Heketā near
Niutōua. •
Tuʻitātui – around 1100 AD, extended the royal court, built the
Haʻamonga; re-established the Fale Fā (
house of four), royal counselors and guardians; his cunning stepbrother Fasiʻapule became a governor. •
Talatama – shifted the residence to
Lapaha; died without issue • 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 • Talaihaʻapepe – real brother of Talatama and supposed grandson through the woodblock • Talakaifaiki – around 1250; start of the decline of the Tongan maritime empire, lost Samoa due to his cruelty to the
Mālietoa line • Talafāpite • Tuʻitonga Maʻakatoe • Tuʻitonga Puipui • Havea I – assassinated by a Fijian • Tatafuʻeikimeimuʻa • Lomiʻaetupuʻa • Havea II – assassinated with an arrow by Tuluvota, a Fijian •
Takalaua – assassinated by Tamasia and Malofafa from
ʻUvea and
Futuna while taking his bath in the Tolopona stream at
Alakifonua; a harsh ruler, start of political upheavals •
Kauʻulufonua I – implemented political reforms in Tonga. • Maʻulupekotofa - the older brother of Pau, who should have been Tuʻi Tonga in the first place without Pa; tried to reduce the burden of religious taboos grown on the Tuʻi Tonga and to increase its political influence • Fuanunuiava - took the power from his uncle in or around 1795, but continued his policy; joined
Fīnau ʻUlukālala in the civil war of 1799; died in 1810 •
Laufilitonga - 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
Velata on
Lifuka in 1826 against
Tāufaʻāhau; was (together with the
Tuʻi Kanokupolu) mockingly installed as Tuʻi Tonga in 1827 as a king with neither political nor spiritual power; died in 1865 after which the title was abolished in 1875. ==See also==