Maysun bint Bahdal

Maysun bint Bahdal (Arabic: ميسون بنت بحدل, romanized: Maysūn bint Baḥdal) was a wife of caliph Mu'awiya I (r. 661–680), and as mother of his successor and son Yazid I (r. 680–683). She belonged to a ruling clan of the Banu Kalb, a tribe which dominated the Syrian steppe. Mu'awiya's marriage to her sealed his alliance with the tribe.

Maysun also enjoys a reputation as one of the earliest attested Arabic-language women poets.^[1] However, that reputation seems to belong to another woman of a similar name, Maysūn bint Jandal.