Troubadour
Troubadour , noun
[French troubadour, from Pr. trobador, (assumed) Late Latin tropator a singer, tropare to sing, from tropus a kind of singing, a melody, song, Latin tropus a trope, a song, Greek {not transcribed} a turn, way, manner, particular mode in music, a trope. See Trope, and compare Trouv.]
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.