Queen hetepheres bracelet
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Hetepheres I: King Sneferu’s wife and King Khufu’s mother
In the previous articles, Egypt Today shed light on the lives of Tutankhamen’s wife and half-sister, Ankhesenamun, and the first Egyptian female ruler, Queen Merneith, also known as Meritneith and Meryt-Neith. Today’s chosen queen is Queen Hetepheres I.
Actual Chair of Queen Hetepheres I – Photo Courtesy of Wikipedia
Queen Hetepheres was the daughter of the Third Dynasty’s last king, King Huni. She was a legal heir to the throne and carried royal blood. However, her husband, King Sneferu, became the new ruler of Egypt, according to researcher and author Ismail Hamed’s book “Most Celebrated Queen in Ancient Egypt”. With King Snefreu’s declaration as a new king of Egypt, a new ruling dynasty was in place: the Fourth Dynasty.
The period of the Fourth Dynasty is widely known as Py
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Hetepheres I
For other women with this name, see Hetepheres.
Queen consort of Egypt
Hetepheres I (fl. c. 2600 BC) was a queen of Egypt during the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt who was a wife of one king, the mother of the next king, the grandmother of two more kings, and the figure who tied together two dynasties.
Biography
Hetepheres I may have been a wife of KingSneferu,[1] and was the mother of King Khufu and grandmother of king Khafre. It is possible that Hetepheres had been a minor wife of Sneferu and only rose in prominence after her son ascended the throne.[2] She was the grandmother of two kings, Djedefre and Khafre, and of queen Hetepheres II.[1] Her titles include: King's Mother (Mut-nisut, mwt-nswt), Mother of the King of the Two Lands (Mut-nisut-biti, mwt-nswt-bjtj), Attendant of Horus (Khet-heru, ḫt-hrw), and God's Daughter of his body (Zat-netjer-net-khetef,zꜣt-nṯr-nt-ẖt.f).[2] The marriage of Hetepheres I to Snefru solidified his rise to the throne. Because she carried the royal bloodline from one d
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Hetepheres I (fl. c. 2630 BCE)
Egyptian queen, "God's Daughter of his body, Mother of the King of Upper and Lower Egypt." Flourished around 2630 bce; daughter of Huni, the last king of the Third Dynasty; married King Snefru, who was probably her brother; children: Cheops (Greek) also known as Khufu, an Egyptian king.
Egyptian queen Hetepheres I, who flourished around 2630 bce, was the eldest daughter of King Huni, the last king of the Third Dynasty. She was also the wife (and probably sister) of King Snefru who is responsible for no less than three pyramids built at Dahshur and Meidum. Snefru's long reign began the Fourth Dynasty, and their son Khufu followed him on the throne when he was already a mature man. As mother of the mighty Khufu, Hetepheres would have been highly honored in life and was provided, by her son, with a spectacular suite of furniture, covered in gold, for her tomb, which was found at Giza by Harvard archaeologist George Andrew Reisner in 1925. The cult of this queen was maintained for generations after her death.
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