A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Sigea, (Aloysia)
SIGEA (ALOYSIA), a Native of Toledo, of French extraction,
Besides a profound knowledge in philosophy, had learned the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Syriac tongues, and written a letter in each to Pope Paul III. She was afterwards sent for to Portugal, to be companion to the Infanta, where she composed many works, and died young 1560.