Isnart or Iznart d'Entrevenas or d'Antravenas ( fl. 1203–1225) was a Provençal

troubadour A troubadour (, ; oc, trobador ) was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100–1350). Since the word ''troubadour'' is etymologically masculine, a female troubadour is usually called a ''trobairit ...

, the son of Raimon d'Agout, a patron of troubadours, and husband of Beatrice, daughter of Jaufre Reforzat de Trets. Isnart held land in Agoult,

Pontevès Pontevès () is a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. See also * Château de Pontevès * Communes of the Var department The following is a list of the 153 communes of the Var depa ...

, and Entrevennes, from which he took his name. His poetry implies a sojourn in

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. In

Provence Provence (, , , , ; oc, Provença or ''Prouvènço'' , ) is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône to the west to the Italian border to the east; it is bor ...

he figures in various documents between 1203 and 1225 and was the ''

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'' of

Arles Arles (, , ; oc, label= Provençal, Arle ; Classical la, Arelate) is a coastal city and commune in the South of France, a subprefecture in the Bouches-du-Rhône department of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, in the former province of ...

in 1220. On 22 November 1251 an Isnart d'Entrevenas witnessed the

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between

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and

Charles of Anjou Charles I (early 1226/12277 January 1285), commonly called Charles of Anjou, was a member of the royal Capetian dynasty and the founder of the second House of Anjou. He was Count of Provence (1246–85) and Forcalquier (1246–48, 1256–85) i ...

, but it was probably not the troubadour but his son. Isnart's work is preserved in two

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s, named ''D'' (the '' Poetarum Provinciali'') and ''N'' (the

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). He wrote two ''

coblas A ''cobla esparsa'' ( literally meaning "scattered stanza") in Old Occitan is the name used for a single-stanza poem in troubadour poetry. They constitute about 15% of the troubadour output, and they are the dominant form among late (after 1220) au ...

'' (in series) attacking

Blacatz Blacatz, known in French genealogy as Blacas de Blacas III (1165–1237), was the feudal lord of Aups and a troubadour. Sordello composed a lament (''planh'') on his death, inviting the kings of his time to share and eat the heart of Blacatz an ...

, sometimes classed as a ''

sirventes The ''sirventes'' or ''serventes'' (), sometimes translated as "service song", was a genre of Old Occitan lyric poetry practiced by the troubadours. The name comes from ''sirvent'' ('serviceman'), from whose perspective the song is allegedly wr ...

''. The second ''cobla'' goes: "Bertelai" is a reference to the Bertolai of

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, who appears in '' Lancelot du Lac''. Isnart probably took the idea from a poem of

Giraut de Bornelh Giraut de Bornelh (; c. 1138 – 1215), whose first name is also spelled Guiraut and whose toponym is de Borneil or de Borneyll, was a troubadour connected to the castle of the viscount of Limoges. He is credited with the formalisation, if not the ...

. He also composed a ''

partimen The ''partimen'' (; ca, partiment ; also known as ''partia'' or ''joc partit'') is a cognate form of the French jeu-parti (plural ''jeux-partis''). It is a genre of Occitan lyric poetry composed between two troubadours, a subgenre of the ''tenso'' ...

'', "Del sonet", with the

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Pelestort sometime before 1237.

Sources

* Jeanroy, Alfred (1934). ''La poésie lyrique des troubadours''. Toulouse: Privat. {{DEFAULTSORT:Isnart Dentrevenas 13th-century French troubadours People from Provence Year of birth uncertain Year of death unknown