troubadour

One of a class of 12th-century and 13th-century lyric poets in southern France, northern Italy, and northern Spain, who composed songs in langue d’oc often about courtly love.

A strolling minstrel.

One of a class of early poets who first appeared in Provence, France.

One of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, principally in Provence, in the south of France, and also in the north of Italy. They invented, and especially cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterized by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strain.

An itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel.

a singer of folk songs