French nobles called troubadours and trouvères, created the first extensive and surviving body of secular songs from the Middle Ages. Knights in this era, which was also called the age of chivalry, were known for their exceptional reputation as musical poets. A great amount of their songs were on the subject of love, that were preserved with the help of troubadours and trouvères having clerics write them down. Wandering/court minstrels, also known as jongleurs, usually performed these songs. The songs performed were mostly dealing with love, but there were also songs about the Crusades, dance songs, and spinning songs. Minstrels, though they were at the lowest social level with prostitute and slaves, would perform these love songs for anyone
