EMELIE, EMELYA, EMELYE is an Amazon and sister of Ypolita, the Amazon queen in The Knight's Tale. Palamon and Arcite fall in love with her when they look out their prison window and see her walking in the garden. Emelye makes two solo appearances: in her May observances, KnT 1033-1055, and in her visit to Dyane's oratory before the tournament, KnT 2271-2366. She does not care for either knight and does not want marriage, but she asks Dyane that if her destiny is to marry one of them, the goddess send her the one who loves her most, KnT 2307-2310. But Theseus intends to give her as a prize to the knight who wins the tournament he arranges. Arcite, who has asked Mars for victory, wins the tournament but is killed when his horse, frightened by the fury sent by Saturn, stumbles and throws him. After some years, Emelye weds Palamon, who has asked Venus to give him Emelye, and thus her prayer is answered. [Arcita: Diane: Ipolita: Palamon: Theseus]

The forms are ME variants of Boccaccio's Italian, Emilia, in Il Teseide delle nozze d'Emilia (1339-1341). Emelie occurs once, in final rhyming position, KnT 2658. Emelya occurs twice: once in medial position, KnT 1880, and once in final rhyming position, KnT 1098. Emelye appears eighteen times in medial positions, KnT 972, 1035, 1046, 1061, 1068, 1427, 1486, 1686, 1737, 1749, 1820, 2243, 2282, 2332, 2361, 2817, 2941, 3103, Anel 38; twenty-seven times in final rhyming position, KnT 871, 1273, 1419, 1567, 1588, 1594, 1731, 1833, 2273, 2341, 2571, 2578, 2658, 2679, 2699, 2762, 2773, 2780, 2808, 2816, 2836, 2885, 2910, 2956, 2980, 3098, 3107.