Many kings had to watch out for harem conspiracies, in which secondary wives plot to murder or overthrow the king to install their own sons as rulers.
Amenemhet the First attempted to solve the problems of the First Intermediate Period. He tried to protect Egypt's borders from invasion and ensure legitimate succession to the throne. He was killed due to a harem conspiracy. This was not the first harem conspiracy on record and Amenemhet the First had taken care to make his heir, Senusert the First, co-regent in the twentieth year of his rule.
This was the first known example of a king making his heir co-regent during his reign in Egyptian history.
King Ramesses the Third, the last great King in the New Kingdom, was killed in a conspiracy hatched in the royal harem with the assistance of some courtiers. One of his secondary wives, Queen Teye, wanted her son Pentawer to succeed his father upon the throne. She plotted with the help of some courtiers.
It is recorded that they "collected people and fomented hostility so as to make rebellion against her lord." The conspirators were 29 persons and six wives. Aside from trying to kill the old king by an unidentified weapon, they also used black magic and made wax images to kill the king, who was apparently severely injured and later died. The conspirators were severely punished
Amenemhet the First attempted to solve the problems of the First Intermediate Period. He tried to protect Egypt's borders from invasion and ensure legitimate succession to the throne. He was killed due to a harem conspiracy. This was not the first harem conspiracy on record and Amenemhet the First had taken care to make his heir, Senusert the First, co-regent in the twentieth year of his rule.
This was the first known example of a king making his heir co-regent during his reign in Egyptian history.
King Ramesses the Third, the last great King in the New Kingdom, was killed in a conspiracy hatched in the royal harem with the assistance of some courtiers. One of his secondary wives, Queen Teye, wanted her son Pentawer to succeed his father upon the throne. She plotted with the help of some courtiers.
It is recorded that they "collected people and fomented hostility so as to make rebellion against her lord." The conspirators were 29 persons and six wives. Aside from trying to kill the old king by an unidentified weapon, they also used black magic and made wax images to kill the king, who was apparently severely injured and later died. The conspirators were severely punished
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