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Thutmose I had both a common father and mother, Semiseneb, but rose through the ranks of the military to become one of the most prominent commanders under the reign of his predecessor Amenhotep I and possibly served as a co-regent . There is some debate over the parentage of his wife Queen Ahmose. She was either the daughter of Ahmose I and Queen Ahmose Nefertari or Thutmose I's sister. When Amenhotep I died childless, Thutmose I ascended the throne. Amenhotep's mother, Ahmose Nefertari, continued to hold the title of God's Wife of Amun into Thutmose's reign, legitimizing his rule.

Thutmose led several major military campaigns most notably against insurgent Hyksos tribes in the Nile Delta. He pursued the tribes all the way to the Euphrates River. In NubiaToday Nubia is the region in the south of Egypt, along the Nile and in northern Sudan, but in ancient times it was an independent kingdom. Aswan, Egypt Its people spoke at least two varieties of the Nubian language group, a Nilo-Saharan subfamily which in he led an expedition beyond the Third Cataract where he engaged a Nubian king in hand to hand combat and slew the Nubian king. According to one of Thutmose I's admiralThe word admiral comes from the Arabic term amir-al-bahr meaning "commander of the seas. Crusaders learned the term during their encounters with the Arabs, perhaps as early as the 11th century. The Sicilians and later Genoese took the first two parts of ts, Ahmose, son of EbanaAhmose, son of Ebana served in the Egyptian military under the pharaohs; Tao II Seqenenre, Ahmose, Amenhotep I, and Thutmose I. His autobiography has survived intact on the wall of his tomb and has proven a valuable source of information on the late 17th, upon victory he had the Nubian king's body hung from the prow of his ship, before he returned to Thebes.

An avid builder, Thutmose I commissioned many construction projects during his rule, including the first tomb carved out at the Valley of the Kings. Much of his projects were at the Temple of Karnak under the supervision of the architect IneniIneni was an Ancient Egyptian architect and government official of the 18th Dynasty, responsible for major constructions under the pharaohs Amenhotep I, Thutmose I, Thutmose II, Hatshepsut, and Thutmose III. Ineni came from an aristocratic family and like. These works included the fourth and fifth pylonThis article has been machine translated, and needs help A pylon is a construction for the support of an electrical overhead line. If the pylon is just one in a continuous chain it is termed a carrying pylon . Pylons at which sections of conductor cabless, numerous courts and statues, the completion of the Treasurey expansion begun by Amenhotep I, and had a hypostyle hall of cedarCedrus deodara ''Cedrus libani C. libani var. libani C. libani var. stenocoma C. libani var. brevifolia C. libani var. atlantica Cedar correctly refers to those trees belonging to the genus Cedrus in the coniferous plant family Pinaceae. They are most clo wood constructed at Karnak to commemorate his victory over the Hyksos.

Ahmose bore him two sons, Wadjmose and Amenmose, both of whom died before Thutmose I. A son by a minor wife, Mutnofret, became his heir and successor Thutmose II, with rival claims by his fully royal daughter Hatshepsut.

Thutmose I's body was found in the Deir el-Bahri Cache above the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut and can viewed today in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

See also: List of Pharaohs