Rowena Ravenclaw
Professor Rowena Ravenclaw (fl. c. 993—1001) was a Scottish witch,
who lived in the early Middle Ages. Noted for her cleverness and creativity and
regarded as one of the greatest witches of the age, Ravenclaw was one of the
four Founders of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft
and Wizardry along with Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff and Salazar Slytherin, as well as the namesake of the Ravenclaw
House. Ravenclaw was "beautiful yet slightly intimidating."
Ravenclaw died sometime into the eleventh
century, after she fell fatally ill. Legend had it that a broken heart is
the cause — because her daughter, Helena, had run away with her diadem.