Seqenenre Tao [SEP] position held
the first ruler of the eighteenth dynasty, see Egyptian chronology). With his queen, Ahhotep I, Seqenenre Tao fathered two pharaohs, Kamose, his immediate successor who was the last pharaoh of the seventeenth dynasty, and Ahmose I who, following a regency by his mother, was the first pharaoh of the eighteenth. Seqenenre Tao is credited with starting the opening moves in a war of revanchism against Hyksos incursions into Egypt, which saw the country completely liberated during the reign of his son Ahmose I.
Reign.
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I, sister and wife of Seqenenre Tao II
- Ahmose-Nefertari, daughter of Seqenenre Tao II and of Ahhotep I, sister and wife of Ahmose I, mother of Amenhotep I and Ahmose-Sipair
- Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt
- Ahmose-Meritamon daughter of Ahmose I and Ahmose-Nefertari, wife of her brother Amenhotep I
- Ahmes, possible sister of Amenhotep I, wife of Thutmose I, mother of Hatshepsut and Amenemes
- Mutnofret, second wife of Thutmose I, mother of Thutmose II