Esteban Manuel de Villegas (1585-1669), a Spanish poet, became famous for his lyrical work Las Eréoticas (1618), setting with its purely formal poetry a precedent for neoclassism. The naming honors also Jean-Baptiste de Villegas (1721-1806), a member of the Gezelschap van den Heiligen Bloede in Bruges.
Discovered on 18-8-1993 in Caussols by Elst, E. W.