Important People
Neferure
Hatshepsut and Thutmose II's only recorded child's name was Neferure. Neferure had no recorded children. It is thought this because Hatshepsut's mother, Ahmose, wrote in her tomb, "For me the god's wife repeated favors the king's great wife Maatkare justified. I brought up her eldest daughter, the princess Neferure, justified, while she was a child at the breast."
Neferure was depicted as a Fair Queen, even a Pharaoh, except for she was not a pharaoh. Neferure was thought to have many suitors, as she was royalty. It is possible that Neferure died during the reign of Hatshepsut, her mother. It is thought that she died of disease.
Senenmut
Although Neferure is thought to have been the child of Thutmose II, some also believe that she was the child of a man named Senenmut. Senenmut was one of the most powerful and famous officials in ancient Egypt. Some observers have suggested that Hatshepsut and Senenmut may have been lovers, but there is no evidence to support the claim. One of the only things that tie Senenmut to history are the twenty-five statues of himself.
Thutmose III
One important way pharaohs affirmed Maat (peace) was by creating monuments, which made the pharaohs ambitious. Monuments of the time show Thutmose III still as a child but portrayed in a conventional manner as an adult king. Hatshepsut also had many statues of herself, displaying her ambition, in which Thutmose III defaced them after her death. Hatshepsut's ambition and her denying Thutmose III's ambition to rule solely, were believed to be potential motivations for the defacing of her images. Thutmose III allowed certain of Hatshepsut's images and cartouches to remain intact because "she was his own flesh".
Historians have generally described Thutmose III as frail and ineffectual. This makes him just the kind of person that Hatshepsut could readily dominate.
" Once you took on the attributes of kingship, that was it. You were a god. It's not Queen for a day, it's King forever."
- Anonymous
Neferure was depicted as a Fair Queen, even a Pharaoh, except for she was not a pharaoh. Neferure was thought to have many suitors, as she was royalty. It is possible that Neferure died during the reign of Hatshepsut, her mother. It is thought that she died of disease.
Senenmut
Although Neferure is thought to have been the child of Thutmose II, some also believe that she was the child of a man named Senenmut. Senenmut was one of the most powerful and famous officials in ancient Egypt. Some observers have suggested that Hatshepsut and Senenmut may have been lovers, but there is no evidence to support the claim. One of the only things that tie Senenmut to history are the twenty-five statues of himself.
Thutmose III
One important way pharaohs affirmed Maat (peace) was by creating monuments, which made the pharaohs ambitious. Monuments of the time show Thutmose III still as a child but portrayed in a conventional manner as an adult king. Hatshepsut also had many statues of herself, displaying her ambition, in which Thutmose III defaced them after her death. Hatshepsut's ambition and her denying Thutmose III's ambition to rule solely, were believed to be potential motivations for the defacing of her images. Thutmose III allowed certain of Hatshepsut's images and cartouches to remain intact because "she was his own flesh".
Historians have generally described Thutmose III as frail and ineffectual. This makes him just the kind of person that Hatshepsut could readily dominate.
" Once you took on the attributes of kingship, that was it. You were a god. It's not Queen for a day, it's King forever."
- Anonymous