Marcabru

Marcabru (Occitan pronunciation: [maɾkaˈβɾy]; fl. 1130–1150) is one of the earliest troubadours whose poems are known. There is no certain information about him; the two vidas attached to his poems tell different stories, and both are evidently built on hints in the poems; not on independent information.

According to the brief life in BnF ms. 12473, Marcabrun was from Gascony (details of the dial… More