minnesinger

One of the German lyric poets and singers in the troubadour tradition who flourished from the 1100s to the 1300s.

One of a class of German lyric poets and singers of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, so called because love was the chief theme of their poems.

A love-singer; specifically, one of a class of German poets and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their verses.

In 12th-14th century Germany, a peripatetic musician, often performing songs of courtly love