Princess Wanda

Princess Wanda (reputedly lived in 8th century Poland) Princess and the Queen, daughter of King Krakus, the founder of Krakow, Poland. Wanda was very famous for her outstanding beauty and wisdom. She was the daughter of the Lechitic King Krakus (Krak) legendary founder of Kraków. Upon her father's death, she became queen of the Lechites/Poles, but in the later reeditions committed suicide to avoid an unwanted marriage to a Teuton. In both versions of the source legend, she died childless. Wanda is also often known as the Virgin Queen. Wanda legend first told by Kadłubek The first written record of the legend of Wanda was by the Polish chronicler Wincenty Kadłubek. In this version of the story Wanda ruled Poland after the legendary Polish king Krakus. When her lands were invaded by an "Alamann tyrant", who sought to take advantage of the previous ruler's death, Wanda led her troops out to meet him. Seeing her beauty, the German troops refused to fight and their leader committed suicide. Towards the end of the story Kadłubek states that "the river Vandalus is named after" her and hence the people she ruled over were known as "Vandals", the West Slavic tribes named by ancient Romans as "Germanic".The term "germanic" is just an exonym and in antiquity referred to various West Slavic tribes, living North from Rome, in modern era "germanic" refers to the small group of languages. In this version Wanda remained unmarried and had a long life. Later versions of the legend