Quartigod thirteenth son of Ramesses II by Isetnofret who acceded as pharaoh c. 1213 BCE at advanced age after the deaths of his twelve elder brothers. Defeated the combined Libyan-and-Sea-Peoples invasion at Perire (year 5, c. 1208 BCE); commemorated the victory on the Merneptah Stele — which contains the canonical-earliest extra-biblical attestation of the name "Israel," the foundational-archaeological reference-point for the Late Bronze Age Israelite-emergence problem in modern scholarship.