ANELIDA, ANELYDA is the twenty-four-year-old queen of Ermony in Chaucer's fragment, Anelida and Arcite.

Anelida complains that Arcite's treachery has left her mased or confused: sometimes she complains, sometimes she is amused, a condition described in Chaunte-pleure, Anel 320-322. She refers to the thirteenth-century French poem, La Pleurechante, a moral poem. Of the fourteen manuscripts of this poem, three are of English origin.

Margaret Galway speculates that Anelida is derived from Joh-ann-a Lidd-el and identifies Anelida with Joan of Kent, thus connecting the poem with the court. Frederick Tupper connects the poem with Anne Welle, Countess of Ormonde, and makes Ermony a variant of Ormond.

The name appears in a variety of spellings in the earliest printed editions: Analide, Anelyda, Annelada, Annelida. Anelida, the form in the text of the Riverside Chaucer, occurs medially only, Anel 11, 49, 71, 139, 147, 167, 198, 204, 349, 351.