Potatau was established as King at Ngaruawahia on 2 May 1859. "Potatau was the chief who was eventually chosen as King [in the King Movement]; he was the father of Tawhiao who had Mahuta, Mahuta had Te Rata; and Te Rata had Koroki. Tiahuia, the elder sister of Mahuta, was the mother of Te Puea."
Biographical sources
- Nga Moteatea: He Maramara Rere No Nga Waka Maha: The Songs: Scattered Pieces From Many Canoe Areas. Comp. Apirana Ngata. Trans. Pei Te Hurinui. Pt. 2. Wellington, N.Z.: Published for the Polynesian Soc. by A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1961. 293.
Other
- "He Waiata/A Song." Nga Moteatea: He Maramara Rere No Nga Waka Maha: The Songs: Scattered Pieces From Many Canoe Areas. Comp. Apirana Ngata. Trans. Pei Te Hurinui. Pt. 2. Wellington, N.Z.: Published for the Polynesian Soc. by A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1961. 292-295.
- "He Waiata/A Song." Nga Moteatea: He Maramara Rere No Nga Waka Maha: The Songs: Scattered Pieces From Many Canoe Areas. Comp. Apirana Ngata. Trans. Pei Te Hurinui. Pt. 2. Wellington, N.Z.: Published for the Polynesian Soc. by A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1961. 296-297.
- "He Waiata Aroha/A Sorrowful Song." Nga Moteatea: He Maramara Rere No Nga Waka Maha. The Songs: Scattered Pieces From Many Canoe Areas. Comp. A. T. Ngata. Trans. Pei Te Hurinui. Pt. 3. Wellington, N.Z.: Polynesian Soc., 1970.132-133.
- "He Waiata Whakautu." Nga Moteatea: He Maramara Rere No Nga Waka Maha. The Songs: Scattered Pieces From Many Canoe Areas. Comp. A. T. Ngata. Trans. Pei Te Hurinui. Pt. 4. Auckland; Wellington, N.Z.: Polynesian Soc. and The Alexander Turnbull Library Endowment Trust with assistance from the New Zealand 1990 Commission, 1990. 136.
- In Māori.
- "He Reo Poroporoaki mo Koroki Te Rata Mahuta Tawhiao Potatau Te Wherowhero: Te Taurima o Nga Kingi o te Iwi Māori." Te Ao Hou 56 (1966): 5.
- Jones, Pei Te Hurinui Jones. "Māori Kings." The Māori People In the Nineteen-Sixties: a Symposium. Ed. Erik Schwimmer. Auckland, N.Z.: Blackwood & Janet Paul, 1968. 132-173.