Hvem giftet seg med Seti I?

Seti I (Menmaatre Seti, gresk: Sethos) var farao av det nye riket og det nittende dynasti. Han var sønn av farao Ramses I og dronning Sitre, og selv far til Ramses II den store. Som med alle dateringer i oldtidens Egypt, er de faktiske datoer for hans kongetid uklare, og ulike historikere har fremmet forskjellige datoer. De mest vanlige er 1294–1279 f.Kr. og 1290–1279 f.Kr.

Navnet Seti betyr «av Set», noe som indikerer at han var innviet til guden Set. Som med de fleste faraoer hadde han flere navn. Da han overtok tronen tok han personnavnet mn-m3‘t-r‘ på egyptisk, vanligvis vokalisert som Menmaatre. Det betyr «Evig er Ras rett». hans fødenavn er omstavet som sty mry-n-ptḥ, eller Sety Merenptah, hvilket har betydningen «Sets menneske, elsket av Ptah». Oldtidsforfatteren Manetho betraktet uriktig Seti som grunnlegger av 19. dynasti, og mente også at han styrte i hele 55 år, men det er ikke funnet holdepunkter for at han styrte så lenge.

Tanedjemet or more accurately Tanedjemy or Tanodjmy (tꜣnḏmy) is a King's Daughter (sꜣt-nsw), King's Wife (ḥmt-nsw), and Mistress of Upper and Lower Egypt (ḥnwt šmʿw tꜣ-mḥw) from the New Kingdom period, only known from her tomb in the Valley of the Queens. While her identity and connections are unstated by any surviving sources, the circumstantial evidence has been interpreted to show that she was almost certainly a wife of Seti I and probably a daughter of Horemheb.

Tuya (also called Tuy or more rarely Mut-Tuya or Muty; in transliteration from hieroglyphic, Twy, Twjȝ, or Twyȝ, as well as Mwt-Twjȝ,; in cuneiform texts from the Hittite correspondence, Tūya, ^SALTu-u-ia.) was the wife of Pharaoh Seti I of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt and mother of Tia, Ramesses II, and possibly Henutmire.

She was the daughter of Raia (Rʿjȝ), Lieutenant in the Chariotry, by his wife Ruya or Tuya (the name is partly broken: [R/T]wjȝ). Seti I and Tuya's daughter Tia (Ṯjȝ) was married to a high-ranking civil servant who was also called Tia (Ṯjȝ), the son of Amenwahsu (Jmn-wȝḥ-sw). The vast majority of Tuya's attestations as queen date to the reign of her son, making it less than completely certain that she bore the title of King's Great Wife during the reign of her husband. On the other hand, as mother of king's only known son, she might well have become Seti's chief queen, unlike another spouse, the royal daughter Tanodjmy.

As the mother of Ramesses II, Tuya enjoyed a privileged existence of a respected king's mother. Ramesses dedicated a monumental structure within his mortuary temple, the Ramesseum, to his mother, and also constructed a fine new tomb for her in the section of the Valley of the Queens that he developed for the burials of the women in his family. Following the peace treaty between Egypt and Hatti in Year 21 of Ramesses II (1259 BC according to the "Low Chronology"), Tuya sent congratulatory letters to the Hittite great king Ḫattušili III and to his queen Puduḫepa, who she addressed as her symbolic "brother" and "sister", respectively. However, by the time of the inauguration of Ramesses II's temple at Abu Simbel in Year 24 (1256 BC), Tuya appears to have been dead.