Laura de Noves

Laura de Noves, also Laure de Sade, (* 1310 in Avignon, † April 6, 1348 ) was the wife of Count Hugues II de Sade. She was possibly the Laura, about who wrote the poet Francesco Petrarca.

She was born in 1310 as a subsidiary of Knight Audebert de Noves and Ermessande de Réal. She married at age 15 on 16 January 1325. Petrarch saw her (if it was) the first time two years later, on 6 April (Good Friday ) 1327 at the Easter Mass in the church of Sainte -Claire d' Avignon. She gave birth to the Hugues de Sade eleven children: Paul, Audebert, Hugues III. ( Ancestor of the later Sade, including the Marquis de Sade ), Pierre, Jacques, Joannet, Philippe, Augière, Ermessende, Marguerite, Garsende. In 1348 she died of the plague.

It can be found mainly in the context of literary publication Petrarch's many depictions of Laura, but they are not all up to date and therefore must be regarded as speculative images.