Chrétien de Troyes

male
Chrétien de Troyes was a French poet and trouvère who flourished in the late 12th century. Little is known of his life, but he seems to have been fr...
Adam de la Halle

Adam de la Halle

male, deceased (1288)
Adam de la Halle, also known as Adam le Bossu (Adam the Hunchback was a French-born trouvère, poet and musician, who broke with the l...

Gace Brulé

male, 849 years old
Gace Brulé, French trouvère, was a native of Champagne. His name is simply a description of his Blazonry. He owned land in Groslière and had dea...

Conon de Béthune

male
Conon de Béthune (c.1150 in the former Artois region, today Pas-de-Calais - December 17, 1219 or 1220, in or near Constantinople or perhaps A...
Colin Muset

Colin Muset

male
Colin Muset, French trouvère, was a poet, musician and a native of Lorraine. He made his living by travelling from castle to castle singing his o...

Blondel de Nesle

male, deceased (1241)
Blondel de Nesle - either Jean I of Nesle or his son Jean II of Nesle (d. 1241) - was a French trouvère. The name 'Blondel de Nesle' is attached t...
Moniot D'Arras

Moniot D'Arras

male, deceased (1239)
Moniot d'Arras was a French composer of the trouvère tradition. Moniot d'Arras was a monk who served in the Abbey of Arras in northern France. He w...
Richard de Fournival

Richard de Fournival

male
Richard de Fournival was a Medieval philosopher and trouvère perhaps best known for "The Bestiary of Love."
Adenet Le Roi

Adenet Le Roi

male
Adenet Le Roi was a French minstrel or trouvère, also known as Roi Adam, Li Rois Adenes, Adan le Menestrel, and Adam Rex Menestrallus.

Audefroi Le Batard

male
Audefroi le Bâtard, French trouvère, flourished at the end of the 12th century and was born at Arras. Of his life nothing is known. The Seigneur de...