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Rowena
Rowena was the daughter of the Anglo-Saxon chief Hengist and a wife of Vortigern, King of the Britons, in British legend. Presented as a beautiful ''femme fatale'', she won her people the Kingdom of Kent through her treacherous seduction of Vortigern. Contemporary sources do not mention Rowena, which leads modern historians to regard her as fictitious.
==Name==
The name "Rowena" does not appear in Old English sources such as Bede's ''Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum'' or the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle''. It was first recorded by Geoffrey of Monmouth in his 12th-century ''Historia regum Britanniae'' (in various spellings, including Ronwen, Renwein, and Romwenna), and may represent a medieval Latin corruption of some lost Germanic or Old English name. Another possibility is that it comes from the Welsh, where the name becomes Rhonwen, and could be connected to the word ''rhawn'' "horsehair", which might be significant given her father and uncle's association with horses,〔 but this is simply conjecture based on similarity of pronunciation.〔
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