Marcabru

Though Marcabru was a pivotal figure in the introduction of L’angue d’oc poetry and music, hardly any is well known of his life. The few biographical tidbits that endure relating to this early Troubador are likely either toward the anecdotal, or toward speculation based on his writings, though documentary proof his employment will endure. The only information regarding his birth, for instance, originates from two brief and afterwards literary biographies, or vidas, of him. They provide the info that his mother’s name was Marcabruna, which he was a foundling “still left at the entranceway of the rich guy”; his initial provided name may or might not have already been Panperdut (Dropped Bread). In addition they give his indigenous area as Gascony; some usage of a Gascon dialect in Marcabru’s poetry facilitates the second declare. He certainly moved into the assistance of Guillame X, Duke of Aquitane, sometime before or about 1130. With this courtroom, Marcabru liked the patronage from the son of the extremely 1st Troubador, Guillaume IX; Guillaume X’s creative patronage of Marcabru while others arranged a precedent for the marvelous later on courtroom of Eleanor of Aquitane. Marcabru statements to possess known and researched using the Troubador Cercamon. The rest of Marcabru’s musical profession appears to involve some wanderings among customers, and a go back to Aquitane by maybe 1145. Guillaume X passed away in 1137 on pilgrimage to Compostela, and around that point Marcabru began searching for other work. At onetime or another he offered the courts of Peire de Gabaret, Viscount of Béarn, Afons Jordan, Count number of Toulouse, and Alfonso VII of León. At least two of Marcabru’s parts, both crusading poems, may either end up being associated with Alfonso’s tries in the 1130s and early 1140s to reconquer Spain in the Moslems, or even to the next Crusade of 1148-1149. An added song refers for an 1149 fight in the ongoing Spanish reconquest. A prolific body of 39 various other poems, three with music, survive from his hands, and a lot of afterwards Troubador poets and music artists understood either his function or the person individually. Though his function was universally acclaimed by later on authors, some castigate him individually for misogynist tendencies.