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.
[1] Of all his works, only two sirventes survive: Mentre m'obri eis huisel and Una re.us dirai, en Serra.
[4] Nonetheless, his works are very simple, the stanzas being composed of three heptasyllables rhyming in the form AAB.
[2] It was he who first used the term sirventes to describe his poems;[2] 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.