# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pepi-i-meryre
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:05:30.759Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pepi-i-meryre"
name: "Pepi I Meryre"
slug: "pepi-i-meryre"
description: "Third king of Egypt's Sixth Dynasty, ruling over 40 years around 2300 BC — through harem plots, the slow crumble of centralized power, and enough building projects to become the Old Kingdom's most prolific architect. His funerary complex gave Memphis its name."
tagline: "Egyptian pharaoh"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/PepiI-CopperStatue-Cropped.png"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "historical-figures"
profileType:
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  slug: "historical-figure"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2798645"
birthDate: "-2400"
deathDate: "-2250"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.24
  momentum:             2.742695570216776
  historical:           21.754296
  currentAttention:     15.23719761231543
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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  - name: "Politician"
    slug: "politician"
  - name: "Politics"
    slug: "politics"
  - name: "Ancient History"
    slug: "ancient-history"
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    title: "Wikipedia"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    title: "بيبى الاول"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "I Pepi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pepi Iañ Merire"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepi_I"
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  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepi_I."
    title: "Pepi I."
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepi_I."
    title: "Pepi I."
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meryra_Pepy"
    title: "Meryra Pepy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Pépi Ier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepi_I."
    title: "Pepi I."
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  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/I._Pepi"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepi_I_Meryre"
    title: "Pepi I Meryre"
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    title: "Pepi I"
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    title: "Pepi I"
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  - url: "https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%E1%8D%94%E1%8D%92"
    title: "1 ፔፒ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Son of Teti and possibly grandson of the Fifth Dynasty's last ruler, Pepi took the throne after his father's likely murder and the brief, shadowy reign of Userkare. Around his twentieth year, a consort tried to engineer her son's succession through conspiracy; later, his own vizier may have plotted against him. As local dynasties grew bold and pharaonic grip weakened, Pepi answered with temples and chapels across Egypt, promoted officials of humble birth to check noble families, and married two daughters of the Abydos nomarch — making their mother and brother viziers. He sent armies into Nubia and the Levant, landed troops by sea on foreign coasts, and kept trade routes to Byblos and Ebla humming. His pyramid at Saqqara, lined with the Old Kingdom's richest cache of Pyramid Texts, anchored a cult that lasted into the Middle Kingdom before the stone was quarried away under the Mamluks.