Filipa de Almada

{{Short description|Portuguese poet and noblewoman}}Filipa de Almada (1453-1497 CE) was a Portuguese poet and noblewoman.{{cite book | url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2591300309.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160409165114/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G2-2591300309.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=2016-04-09 | title=Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia | publisher=Gale | year=2002}}{{Cite book |last1=Greene |first1=Roland |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dC7FCgAAQBAJ&dq=Filipa+de+Almada&pg=PA442 |title=The Princeton Handbook of World Poetries |last2=Cushman |first2=Stephen |date=2016-11-22 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-1-4008-8063-8 |language=en}}

Almada is known to have lived and written during the reigns of kings Alfonso V and John II of Portugal. She was the granddaughter of Philippa of Lancaster, queen of Portugal. Almada married Rui Moniz, a fellow-poet, and they had a son together, Francisco de Sousa Mancias.{{Cite journal |last=Flores |first=Conceição |date=2013-07-02 |title=ESCRITA FEMININA EM PORTUGAL |url=https://periodicos.ufs.br/interdisciplinar/article/view/1284 |journal=Interdisciplinar - Revista de Estudos em Língua e Literatura |language=pt |volume=11 |issn=1980-8879}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KHxGGmYuMuAC&dq=Rui+moniz+filipa+de+almada&pg=PA138 |title=Estudos em homenagem a José Amadeu Coelho Dias (2 Vol.) |date=2006 |publisher=Universidade do Porto |isbn=978-972-8932-17-6 |language=pt-BR}}

In the royal court of the time, poetry was a popular skill and pastime; courtiers would frequently participate in poetry competitions. Almada was noted for her skill, and her poetry was included in the 1516 songbook Cancioneiro Geral anthologized by Garcia de Resende.