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. It was he who first used the term "sirventes" to describe his poems; the word appears in both of his surviving works, twice in one: 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.