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Marcabru
Sign in to savethumb|A miniature portrait of Marcabru beside his vida in a 13th-century chansonnier. Marcabru (; 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.
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- 1110-00-00
- Died
- 1200-01-01
- Works
- 2
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- Poesies complètes du troubadour Marcabru
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Marcabru (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 MS. BNF 12473 Marcabrun was from Gascony (details of the dialect of his poems support this) and was the son of a poor woman named Marcabruna. He made bad poems and bad satires, and spoke evil of wom
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- Born
- 1110
- Died
- 1 January 1200
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Gascony
- Place of death
- Auvillar
- Occupation
- author
- Languages spoken
- Old Occitan
- Movement
- medieval music
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- BnF ms. 12473 fol. 102 - Marcabru (2).jpg
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thumb|A miniature portrait of Marcabru beside his vida in a 13th-century chansonnier. Marcabru (; 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 the BnF ms. 12473, Marcabrun was from Gascony (details of the dialect of his poems support this) and was the son of a poor woman named Marcabrunela. This evidently comes from a reading of poem 293,18.