unknown bat Shmuel ben Ya'akob, Gaon of Jaen al-Andalus

She traveled with her husband, R' Moses from Sura to raise funds for the Sura Talmudic academy. During a voyage from Bari, Italy, they were captured by the Moorish-Spanish admiral Ibn Rumahis, who became enamored with her. In distress she asked her husband in Hebrew whether those who were drowned in the sea could look forward to resurrection, and when he answered, in the words of the psalm, "The Lord saith, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring them again from the depths of the sea," she cast herself into the waters and was drowned.