This shows the high status of Ramesses' family. His uncle Khaemwaset, an army officer, married Tamwadjesy, the matron of Tutankhamun's Harem of Amun, who was a relative of Huy, the viceroy of Kush, an important state post. He was a son of a troop commander called Seti. Originally called Pa-ra-mes-su, Ramesses I was of non-royal birth, being born into a noble military family from the Nile Delta region, perhaps near the former Hyksos capital of Avaris. See also: Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt family tree Pharaoh Ramses I making an offering before Osiris, Allard Pierson Museum.
