It is probably of Dutch ancestry, and David Parlett suggests that it played a role with the association of the name Jack with the card rank that was originally known only as the knave.
Parlett, David, The Oxford History of Board Games: Oxford University Press,1999, ISBN 0-19-212998-8
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