A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Sainte des Prez

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SAINTE DES PREZ,

A pupil of Agnes de Bragelonge de Planey, lived in the thirteenth century. She was a French poetess. At the age of twelve, she fell in love with Seymour, an English gentleman, who was then thirty, and who did not reciprocate her affection till ten years after, when he married her; but she died soon after. Guillebert d'Emeville, a celebrated troubadour, was one of her suitors.