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100 Named Arthurian Women #5: Rowena

Rowena (also known as Rowen and Ronwen), daughter of the Saxon lord Hengist and later wife of King Vortigern, who first appears in the Historia Brittonum by Nennius (though she is unnamed in this text), then Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britannia (in which she is given a name) as well as Wace's Brut and Layamon's Brut.