Menkaure [SEP] mother
beautiful statue triads, showing the king together with his wives Rekhetre and Khamerernebty.
Family.
Menkaure was the son of Khafra and the grandson of Khufu. A flint knife found in the mortuary temple of Menkaure mentioned a king's mother Khamerernebty I, suggesting that Khafra and this queen were the parents of Menkaure. Menkaure is thought to have had at least two wives.
- Queen Khamerernebty II is the daughter of Khamerernebti I and the mother of a king's son Khuenre. The location of Khuenre's tomb suggests
that he was a son of Menkaure, making his mother the wife of this king.
- Queen Rekhetre is known to have been a daughter of Khafra and as such the most likely identity of her husband is Menkaure.
Not many children are attested for Menkaure:
- Khuenre was the son of queen Khamerernebti II. Menkaure was not succeeded by Prince Khuenre, his eldest son, who predeceased Menkaure, but rather by Shepseskaf, a younger son of this king.
- Shepseskaf was the successor to Menkaure and