Falquet de Romans

1215–1233) was the most famous troubadour attached to the court of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, where he garnered a high reputation despite the fact that his career began as a jongleur.

He confessed to being unable to cease thinking pus parti de Vianes ("the greater part about Viennois").

Falquet was back in Provence in 1226–1228, when he wrote a tenso, En chantan volh quem digatz, with Blacatz.

On two other occasions he was given to referencing Floire et Blancheflor and in his 254-line letter he refers to the Roman de Renart and Tristans and Ysout.

This last, Vers Dieu, el vostre nom e de Sancta Maria, was addressed to God and the Virgin Mary.

It ends on the high note of a sunrise (alba): Of Falquet's political views very little would be known if he had not left behind a sirventes written against the rich and powerful which contains a prescription for socio-political reform: Besides this one clear statement, Falquet composed other sirventes joglarescs (attacks/insult on jongleurs, often in the manner of jongleurs) in order, so his vida puts it, "to praise the good and to blame the bad."

In between he wrote Quan lo dous temps ven e vai la freidors, one of the most powerful Crusade songs ever written.