Sanualio Laufilitonga/en

Sanualio Laufilitonga was the last Tuʻi Tonga to be. William Mariner saw him in Vavaʻu shortly before his departure in 1810 as a lively boy of about 15 years old.

He was maried with at least 18 wives. Only the most important are given in the diagram, the rest being second wives, like Moʻungaʻulufeholoi.

Sālote Lupepauʻu was his favourite, but she did not produce children for him, and at the end she was confiscated by his most bitter opponent, Tāufaʻāhau. Luseane Halaevalu Mataʻaho, the daughter of a Tuʻi Kanokupolu and therefore the moheofo, should have been his primary wife. But again Tāufaʻāhau played a trick on him, as she was no longer a virgin when she came to him, and as such was officially worthless. Yet her child would carry forth his succession line, the Kalaniuvalu when established by Siaosi Tupou I.

But the power which had been associated with the Tuʻi Tonga was on Laufilitonga's wish after his death diverted to his nephew Siaosi Fatafehi Toutaitokotaha (the Tuʻipelehake, grandson of his mother Tupou Veiongo through another man).