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A jester, also known as joker, court jester, or fool, was a member of the household of a nobleman or a monarch employed to entertain guests during royal court.Jesters were also traveling performers who entertained common folk at fairs and town markets, and the discipline continues into the modern day, where jesters perform at historical-themed events.
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Mathurine is noted in the registers of the court with the position Plaisante, [2] which was the title of female jesters of the court in 16th-century France, of which there were evidently several, such as Mademoiselle Sevin, the jester of the queen of Navarre. [3] Mathurine de Vallois is the most known of these female jesters.
The fool perhaps reached its pre-Shakespearean heights as the jester in aristocratic courts across Europe. The jester played a dynamic and changing role in entertaining aristocratic households in a wide variety of ways: songs, music, storytelling, medieval satire, physical comedy and, to a lesser extent, juggling and acrobatics.
Minstrels were required to either join the guild or abstain from practising their craft. Some minstrels were retained by lords as jesters who, in some cases, also practised the art of juggling. Some were women or women who followed minstrels in their travels. Minstrels throughout Europe also employed trained animals, such as bears.
Pages in category "Jesters" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * List of jesters; Shakespearean ...
It is known that in France, there have been at least three jesters referred to as "Triboulet", with the first one serving René of Anjou and being also a playwright. [2] The second Triboulet served Louis XII; he died during his reign, and the third Francis I (and possibly also Louis XII), and those two became later confused as one person.
An archimime is a chief buffoon or jester. Among the ancient Romans, archimimes were persons who imitated the manners, gestures, and speech both of the living and the deceased. At first, they were only employed in the theatre, but were afterwards admitted to their feasts, and at last to funerals.