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A courtier (/ ˈ k ɔːr t i ər /) is a person who attends the royal court of a monarch or other royalty. [1] The earliest historical examples of courtiers were part of the retinues of rulers. Historically the court was the centre of government as well as the official residence of the monarch, and the social and political life were often ...
The Sikh 'Court of Lahore'.. A royal household is the highest-ranking example of patronage.A regent or viceroy may hold court during the minority or absence of the hereditary ruler, and even an elected head of state may develop a court-like entourage of unofficial, personally-chosen advisers and "companions".
William Carey (c. 1495 – 22 June 1528) [3] was a courtier and favourite of King Henry VIII of England. He served the king as a Gentleman of the Privy chamber, and Esquire of the Body to the King. His wife, Mary Boleyn, is known to history as a mistress of King Henry VIII and the sister of Henry's second wife, Anne Boleyn.
One of his duties, according to the courtier Elizabeth Amadas, was to procure women for his monarch and arrange trysts with them at his London home, in Thames Street. [10] Compton was also the steward, or administrator, of several royal manors. [11] Compton was knighted 25 September 1513 at Tournai, following the Battle of the Spurs. [12]
Anne Shelton (courtier) John Shelton (courtier) Henry Sidney; Philip Sidney; Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset; Will Sommers; Elizabeth Southwell (courtier) Richard Southwell (courtier) John Spencer (courtier) William Stafford (conspirator) William Stafford (courtier) Benjamin C. Stephenson; Adrian Stokes (courtier) Henry Streatfeild (courtier)
Parker married Eileen Allan in 1942, with whom he had a son and a daughter. The marriage was dissolved in 1958. Eileen wrote a 1982 book called Step Aside for Royalty in which she claimed her husband and the Duke of Edinburgh used the pseudonyms Murgatroyd and Winterbottom to "gallivant out of the palace".
Nicholas Carew (courtier) John Carey (courtier) William Carey (courtier) William Cavendish (courtier) Thomas Cawarden; David Cecil (courtier) Richard Cecil (courtier) Joan Champernowne; Alice Clere; William Coffin (courtier) William Compton (courtier) William Cope (cofferer) Thomas Cromwell; Thomas Culpeper; Robert Curson
Sir Nicholas Carew KG (c. 1496 – 3 March 1539), of Beddington in Surrey, was an English courtier and diplomat during the reign of King Henry VIII. He was executed for his alleged part in the Exeter Conspiracy. Arms of Carew: Or, three lions passant in pale sable [1]