Bernart de Venzac

In his poem Iverns vay e.l temps tenebros he even prays to his recently deceased patron requesting him change any "false" words in his poem to right ones: Prec que.l mot fals en sian ras / Pel compte N'Uc, en qui es dos.

[1] Like Marcabru, Bernart also employs a complex ironic attack on cuckolders by portraying the object of their sexual liaisons as not the women they intend but rather their husbands.

His language, however, is skilled and he employs a vocabular at once popular, colourful, rich with rare words, and deeply expressive.

His poem Lanquan cort la doussa bia ("When the sweet breeze blows") is written in the trobar clus style.

To Bernart has been attributed an anonymous "prayer" to "Saint Mary of the Orient" in which the poet requests protection for King Philip Augustus and the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa as they embarked on the Third Crusade (1189).