Jacques de Cysoing

Jacques de Cysoing was a thirteenth-century French trouvère active in the cultural world of northern France during the later flowering of the trouvère tradition. He belongs to the generation of poet-composers who worked within an already well-established idiom of courtly song, cultivating refined lyric forms rather than seeking formal innovation. His surviving songs place him securely within the mainstream of the trouvère repertory, where elegance of melodic line and clarity of poetic expression were prized above novelty.