Career
Isnart held land in Agoult, Pontevès, and Entrevennes, from which he took his name. His poetry implies a sojourn in Lombardy. In Provence he figures in various documents between 1203 and 1225 and was the podestà of Arles in 1220.
Isnart's work is preserved in two chansonniers, named D (the Poetarum Provinciali) and N (the Philipps Manuscript). He wrote two coblas (in series) attacking Blacatz, sometimes classed as a sirventes. The second cobla goes:
"Bertelai" is a reference to the Bertolai of Arthurian legend, who appears in Lancelot du Lac.
Isnart probably took the idea from a poem of Giraut de Bornelh. He also composed a partimen, "Del sonet", with the jongleur Pelestort sometime before 1237.
