House
Fourth Dynasty of Egypt
Dynasty of ancient Egypt
- Dated 2613 BCE – 2498 BCE
- Also called Dynasty IV, Dynasty 4, 4th Dynasty
A family
on the record,
reign by reign.
Documented kin
Members · 12
The house, member by member
One family drawn as a tree, then every member, oldest first where a date is recorded.
What this means
People whose own records place them in this house. Membership of a house is a family fact. It is not a religious affiliation and not a right to any office. “Child of” appears where a member’s recorded parent is also in the house — a documented human family, the same kind of claim as membership, and nothing more. Imported from Wikidata: nothing here has been read by an editor.
6 children in the house
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Khufu 27th century BCE – 2566 BCE 3 children in the house
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Henutsen 27th century BCE – 26th century BCE 1 child in the house
- Nefertkau I from 27th century BCE
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Prince Rahotep 26th century BCE – 26th century BCE -
Ankhhaf 26th century BCE – 26th century BCE -
Hetepheres
Every member
People whose own records place them in this house.
- Khufu27th century BCE – 2566 BCE · Child of Sneferu
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Sneferu27th century BCE – 2609 BCE · pharaoh and founder of the 4th dynasty of Ancient Egypt - Henutsen27th century BCE – 26th century BCE · Child of Sneferu
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Nofretfrom 27th century BCE · ancient Egyptian princess - Nefertkau Ifrom 27th century BCE · Child of Sneferu
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Djedefrec. the 2610s BCE – 2558 BCE · Child of Khufu - Pyramid G1-cbetween 2613 and 2498 BCE (derived from its recorded time period) · building in Egypt
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Khafrac. 2612 BCE – c. 2530 BCE · Child of Henutsen - Prince Rahotep26th century BCE · Child of Sneferu
- Djedefhor26th century BCE · Child of Khufu
- Ankhhaf26th century BCE · Child of Sneferu
- HetepheresChild of Sneferu
Succession
Offices held in the house
The members in each office, in order — a selection from the office’s whole line.
Pharaoh
- 4 holders
- 2 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
No dates recorded 2
Pharaohs of Fourth Dynasty of Egypt
- 3 holders
- 3 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Pharaohs of old Kingdown of Egypt
- 2 holders
- 2 undated
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Chronology is not a full explanation
Why one member followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates. That both belonged to the house is not, on its own, that evidence.
Connections
How Fourth Dynasty of Egypt connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 1
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
1 statement on this record
- 1 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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