Horbaef (also known as Baefhor and Horbaf) was an ancient Egyptian

prince A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. Th ...

of the

4th Dynasty The Fourth Dynasty of ancient Egypt (notated Dynasty IV) is characterized as a "golden age" of the Old Kingdom of Egypt. Dynasty IV lasted from to 2494 BC. It was a time of peace and prosperity as well as one during which trade with other ...

. His title was "King’s son". Horbaef was a son of Pharaoh

Khufu Khufu or Cheops was an ancient Egyptian monarch who was the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty, in the first half of the Old Kingdom period ( 26th century BC). Khufu succeeded his father Sneferu as king. He is generally accepted as having co ...

and an unknown woman. He married his half-sister

Meresankh II Meresankh II ("She Loves Life") was a Queen of Egypt who lived during 4th Dynasty. Family Meresankh II's parents are assumed to be King Khufu and Queen Meritites I given that they are mentioned in Meresankh's mastaba. She is never explicitly cal ...

,Her mother was very likely

Meritites I Meritites I was an ancient Egyptian queen of the 4th Dynasty. Her name means "Beloved of her Father". Several of her titles are known from a stela found at Giza. She was buried in the middle Queen’s Pyramid in Giza (''Pyramid G 1b''). Meritit ...

. and they had two daughters, the ladies

Nefertkau III Nefertkau III was an ancient Egyptian princess. She lived during the 4th Dynasty. She was possibly a daughter of Meresankh II and Horbaef. If so, she was a granddaughter of King Khufu. Baud has proposed that Nefertkau was a daughter of Khufu ins ...

and

Nebty-tepites Nebty-tepites (''nb.tỉ tp ỉt=s,'' "The two crowns on the head of her father"George A. Reisner. ''A History of the Giza Necropolis III,'' Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Chapter 16: The Royal Family of Dynasty Four, page 146) was a Princess of an ...

. They may have also had one son called

Djaty Djaty I (also Djati) was a prince who lived in the ancient Egypt during the 4th Dynasty. He was an overseer of a royal expedition. Djaty was a son of Queen Meresankh II, daughter of King Khufu. Djaty's sisters were Nefertkau III and Nebty-tepi ...

. After Horbaef’s death, his widow Meresankh married a pharaoh, her other half-brother, either

Djedefra Djedefre (also known as Djedefra and Radjedef – Modern Greek: ) was an ancient Egyptian king (pharaoh) of the 4th Dynasty during the Old Kingdom. He is well known by the Hellenized form of his name Rhatoisēs (Ῥατοίσης) by Manetho. D ...

Khafre Khafre (also read as Khafra and gr, Χεφρήν Khephren or Chephren) was an ancient Egyptian King (pharaoh) of the 4th Dynasty during the Old Kingdom. He was the son of Khufu and the successor of Djedefre. According to the ancient historia ...

, and thus she became a queen. It’s possible that Djaty was a son of Meresankh’s second husband because he had a title "king’s son of his body", and Horbaef was a

but never a king. Horbaef was buried in the mastaba G 7410-7420 at

Giza Giza (; sometimes spelled ''Gizah'' arz, الجيزة ' ) is the second-largest city in Egypt after Cairo and fourth-largest city in Africa after Kinshasa, Lagos and Cairo. It is the capital of Giza Governorate with a total population of 9.2 ...

. Meresankh was also buried there.

References

*Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, ''The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt'', Thames & Hudson (2004) Princes of the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt 3rd-millennium BC births 3rd-millennium BC deaths Khufu {{Africa-royal-stub