A Northman Princess
, Vidumavi was the daughter of King Vidugavia of Rhovanion (r. T.A. 1248-1322). She was born in Buhr Widu,
in the East Bight of Mirkwood, in the year T.A. 1231. When she
was nineteen years old in T.A. 1250, she met Valacar of Gondor,
the son of Minalcar, who would become heir to the throne of the South Kingdom of Gondor in T.A. 1306 when his father assumed the crown. From T.A. 1250 to T.A. 1260, Valacar lived in Buhr Widu as his father's ambassador,
and it did not take too long for Vidumavi capture the Gondorian's heart. They wed in T.A. 1253 and
Vidumavi bore their first child two years later in T.A. 1255. Valacar named him
Eldacar, while Vidumavi called him Vinitharya in her own
tongue.
When Minaltar recalled his son from Rhovanian in T.A. 1260, She and their children accompanied Valacar to Osgiliath. When Minaltar assumed the throne from his father in T.A. 1304, it made Valacar heir and put his grandson Eldacar in line for the throne. The presence of Eldacar and the likelihood he would one day inherit the crown of Gondor stirred the ire
of many Gondorians — most notably the Pelargirian Sea-lords of Lebennin
and South Ithilien. Vidumavi was now Princess of Gondor and would have become Queen of Gondor upon Valacar's ascension to
the throne of Gondor in T. A. 1366, but she died in T.A. 1332. Even though Vidumavi lived one hundred and one years, a long lifespan for the Northmen, this was what the disgruntled
Dúnedain cited with their claims of her weak lineage and cast aspersions upon Eldacar, her son and heir. These feelings formed the foundation for the revolt that
took place in southern Gondor during the later years of her
husband's reign, a rebellion which erupted into the Kin-strife when
Valacar died in T.A. 1432.
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- Galadwen