Indicate the country that is traditionally considered the birthplace of knightly poetry.

This country is France, more precisely, the French province of Provence, where knightly poetry originated, and from there it has already spread throughout the world. Knightly poetry sang the so-called courtly ideals of the nobility – courage, belligerence, generosity to wastefulness, loyalty to the suzerain, admiration for the proud and inaccessible lover – the Beautiful Lady, and at the same time courtesy, skill in occupations that befallen a noble person (hunting, chess game and other “noble” games, skill in versification, etc.). The knights defiantly rejected the values ​​of the emerging bourgeoisie, not to mention contempt for the “rabble”; nevertheless, many chivalric ideals survived the centuries and entered our modern culture.