Jongleur vs. Troubadour — What's the Difference?

A wandering minstrel, poet, or entertainer in medieval England and France.

A troubadour (English: , French: [tʁubaduʁ] (listen); Occitan: trobador [tɾuβaˈðu] (listen)) was a composer and performer of Old Occitan lyric poetry during the High Middle Ages (1100–1350). Since the word troubadour is etymologically masculine, a female troubadour is usually called a trobairitz.

An itinerant entertainer in medieval England and France; roles included song, music, acrobatics etc.; a troubadour.

A French medieval lyric poet composing and singing in Provençal in the 11th to 13th centuries, especially on the theme of courtly love.

A juggler; a conjurer.

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 mountebank.

A strolling minstrel.

In the Middle Ages, a court attendant or other person who, for hire, recited or sang verses, usually of his own composition. See Troubadour.

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

A juggler; a conjuror. See Juggler.

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.

A singer of folk songs

A singer of folk songs