Marghita

Marghita, or Margareta, was the wife of Basarab I, the voivode whose victory at the Battle of Posada in 1330 made Wallachia independent. Local tradition tells of a Margareta who built a church at Câmpulung and drowned herself after her husband, the legendary Radu Negru, destroyed it.

Her name survives in a Câmpulung diptych commemorating Voivode Io Basarab and his wife. She was the mother of Basarab's successor Nicholas Alexander and of Theodora, wife of Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria.