Uc de la Bacalaria

1206[1]) was a Limousin troubadour from La Bachellerie near Uzerche, the home town of Gaucelm Faidit.

Uc participated in a three-way torneyamen with Savaric de Malleo and Gaucelm Faidit.

[2] Savaric posed the dilemma: if a lady with three suitors gazes into the eyes of one, squeezes the hand of the other, and nudges the foot of the third, to whom did she show the truest affection?

[2] Uc's answer is that the suitor whose hand was grasped was her true love, for a lady's gaze can rest on anything.

Both troubadours appear to have wished to revive the genre and Uc explicitly writes that vuelh far alb' ab son novelh: "I want to make an alba with a new sound.