Marcoat

Marcoat was a minor Gascon troubadour and joglar who flourished in the mid twelfth century. He is often cited in connexion with Eleanor of Aquitaine and is placed in a hypothetical "school" of poetry which includes Bernart de Ventadorn, Marcabru, Cercamon, Jaufre Rudel, Peire Rogier, and Peire de Valeria among others. Of all his works, only two sirventes survive: and .

Marcoat was an innovator building off the work of the contemporary Gascon Marcabru, whose death he recalls in one of his works c. 1150. Nonetheless, his works are very simple, the stanzas being composed of three heptasyllables rhyming in the form AAB. The meaning of these verses is obscure, as he was an early practitioner of the trobar clus style. According to himself, he wrote (contradictory verses). He was a model for the later troubadour Raimbaut d'Aurenga.