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Baron Archer

Thomas Archer (1668–1743), youngest son of Thomas Archer, Baroque architect and courtier

Caroline Lewenhaupt

Caroline (Karolina Juliana Anna Ulrika) Lewenhaupt (1754, Oberbronn - 1826 Linköping), was a Swedish courtier, poet and amateur actor.

Charles Berkeley

Charles Berkeley, 1st Earl of Falmouth (bef. 1636–1665), English politician and courtier, son of the above

Charles Blount

Charles Blount, 5th Baron Mountjoy (1516–1544), English courtier and patron of learning

Daniel Blok

Houbraken goes on to say that he made a genealogical and heraldic family tree for the Dukes of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and went from being painter to becoming courtier, but he lost everything in a fire in 1651 during the Thirty Years War.

David Kalstone

An authority on the Elizabethan courtier poet Sir Philip Sidney, Kalstone also lectured and wrote about 20th-century poets including Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.

Eikon Basilike

Some later editions of the Eikon Basilike contained a sworn statement by William Levett, Esq., longtime courtier and groom of the bedchamber to the King, that Levett had witnessed Charles writing the text during the time that Levett accompanied him in his imprisonment on the Isle of Wight.

Elizabeth Boleyn, Lady Boleyn

These women included Lady Elizabeth Boleyn; Queen Anne's aunt, Lady Anne Shelton; Lady Mary Kingston, the wife of Sir William Kingston, the Lieutenant of the Tower; Lady Margaret Coffin, the wife of Queen Anne's Master of the Horse; and Elizabeth Stoner, wife of the King's Serjeant-at-Arms.

Elizabeth Cavendish

Bess of Hardwick (1527–1608), Elizabethan courtier, married to Sir William Cavendish

Erik Juel

Erik Juel, often referred to as Erik Juel to Hundsbæk and Alsted (1591 – 13 February 1657), was a Danish courtier, seignory and Privy Councillor, the father of Admiral Niels Juel and of the politician and diplomat Jens Juel.

Francis Leigh

Francis Leigh, 1st Earl of Chichester (1598–1653), Baronet, courtier and Royalist MP for Warwick

George Chichester

George Chichester, 3rd Marquess of Donegall (1797–1883), Anglo-Irish landowner, courtier and politician

George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny

George Neville or Nevill, 5th and de jure 3rd Baron Bergavenny KG, PC (c.1469 – 1535/6) was an English courtier.

Hamilton Place, London

After the Restoration they were leased from the Crown by James Hamilton (died 1673) a courtier during the reign of Charles II who held the position of Hyde Park Ranger.

Hedvig Elizabeth von Biron

Hedvig Elizabeth von Biron of Courland (1727–1797), was a princess of Courland and a Russian courtier, daughter of the Duke of Courland, Ernst Johann von Biron, and Benigna Gottlieb von Trotha gt Treyden, and the sister of Peter von Biron.

Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent

Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Kent, KG PC (1671 – 5 June 1740) was a British politician and courtier.

Henry Mainwaring

His brothers were Sir Arthur Mainwaring, Carver to Prince Henry, George Mainwaring, the defender of Tong Castle, and Sir Thomas Mainwaring, the Recorder of Reading.

Herbarium Apuleii Platonici

Herbarium Apuleii Platonici depicts 131 plants with their synonymy and instructions for their use in medicines and was first published in 1481 at Monte Cassino near Rome by Johannes Philippus de Lignamine, a Sicilian courtier and physician to Pope Sixtus IV.

Jan Mostaert

Mostaert's "Portrait of a Courtier", a painting that until 2005 had been in the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts since 1949, was found to have been confiscated by Nazi forces in 1941 from its rightful owners in Poland.

Jigda-Khatun

Jigda-Khatun's involvement in the government of Georgia was occasioned by David's departure for the court of Batu Khan, when she, together with the courtier Jikur, was left in charge of regency.

John Bourke, 4th Earl of Mayo

John Bourke, 4th Earl of Mayo, GCH, PC (Ire) (18 June 1766 – 23 May 1849) was an Irish peer and courtier, styled Lord Naas from 1792 until 1794.

John Erskine of Carnock

Several descendants of his son from this marriage, James Erskine, gained distinction, including John Erskine, Sir David Erskine, Sir Arthur Erskine, Sir James Erskine and Sir George Erskine.

John la Zouche, 7th Baron Zouche, 8th Baron St Maur

He owed something to the help of the prominent courtier Sir Reginald Bray, for which he paid a heavy price, selling him several manors at an undervalue.

John Shelton

Sir John Shelton (1476/7–1539), courtier during the reign of Henry VIII of England

John Strangways

John Fox-Strangways (1803–1859), British diplomat, Whig politician and courtier

Jost Andreas von Randow

Jost Andreas von Randow (* Loburg, 3. April 1580; † ?) was courtier at the Anhaltian court at Dessau and an early member of the Fruitbearing Society.

Kujō Michitaka

In the bakumatsu period, Kujō supported the Shogunate policy as one of highest courtier of the imperial court and hence lost the power at the very beginning of Meiji restoration when the annihilation of the Shogunate was announced on 1868-01-03.

Onorata Rodiani

The figure of Onorata appears in the novel Ash: A Secret History by Mary Gentle, in which her episode with the Cremonese courtier is suggested to be propaganda, but she does command a mercenary company in the novel, and meets with her counterpart and main character, Ash.

Quebec Expedition

Rear Admiral of the White Sir Hovenden Walker was given overall command of the expedition, with Brigadier John Hill in command of the land forces.

Queen of Outer Space

In the palace, the astronauts are aided by a beautiful courtier named Talleah (Zsa Zsa Gabor) and her friends (Lisa Davis, Barbara Darrow, and Marilyn Buferd).

Rochford Hall

During the reign of King Henry VIII, it belonged to Thomas Boleyn, then viscount Rochford, and it was the marital home of his daughter Mary Boleyn, sister of Queen Anne Boleyn, and Mary's second husband, Sir William Stafford.

Saung

The most significant innovator was the talented courtier Myawaddy Mingyi U Sa (1766–1853), who adapted repertoires of Siamese music into Burmese, rewrote the Siamese Ramayana, called Ramakien, into the Burmese Enaung-zat, composed harp music for it, and developed a whole new genre of harp music called "Yodaya" (the Burmese word for Ayutthaya).

Simon Arnauld, Marquis de Pomponne

When the ardently Catholic English courtier Edward Colman asked for large sums of money to persuade King Charles II of England to pursue a pro-French policy, Pomponne showed strong common sense, telling his own King firmly that Charles' support was not worth bidding for.

Sir William Shelley

He was hostile to the Protestant Reformation, and is said to have suffered from Thomas Cromwell's antipathy; but his name appears in important state trials of the period: in that of the Carthusian monks and John Fisher (1535), of Weston, Norris, Lord Rochford, and Anne Boleyn (May 1536), and Sir Geoffrey Pole, Sir Edward Neville, and Sir Nicholas Carew (1538–9).

Sophia von Kielmansegg, Countess of Darlington

Although described by historians as 'the Elephant' who competed with 'the Maypole' (Melusine), modern historians, especially Ragnhild Hatton attribute her as a valued courtier of the king and stating she was not as obese as early works suggested.

Sporus

In 1735, Alexander Pope wrote a satirical poem that mocked the courtier Lord Hervey, who had been accused of homosexuality a few years earlier.

The Faerie Queene

This character is actually based upon a real person, Sir James Scudamore, a jousting champion and courtier to Queen Elizabeth I.

Thomas Fowle

On 22 July 1563, he was installed as second prebendary of Norwich Cathedral, when it was noted that he lived at Redgrave in Suffolk, where he was both rector of the parish and chaplain to Lord Keeper Sir Nicholas Bacon.

Thomas Hales

Sir Thomas Hales, 3rd Baronet (c. 1694–1762), British Member of Parliament and courtier

Thomas Heneage

Sir Thomas Heneage PC (1532 – 17 October 1595) was an English politician and a courtier at the court of Elizabeth I.

Thomas Parr

Sir Thomas Parr (c.1483–1517), 16th-century English courtier and father of Queen Katherine Parr

Thomas St. Leger

He was granted by Louis XI a pension of 12,000 crowns annually which was to be distributed between himself, Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset, Sir John Howard (later Duke of Norfolk), Sir Thomas Montgomery, and some other of the profligate courtiers.

Trawsgoed

during the Civil War he married Malet, daughter of the poet and courtier, the Earl of Rochester, and granddaughter of the Cavalier, Sir Henry Wilmot, 1st Earl of Rochester, the victor of the Battle of Roundway Down.

Vadstena Abbey

Of these, one married an officer and courtier of Charles IX, another one became lady-in-waiting to Queen Christina, and the last one, Karin Johansdotter, was allowed to stay in the building of the former abbey employed as a caretaker to the abbey's gardens until 1605.

Viscount

The word viscount, known to be used in English since 1387, comes from Old French visconte (modern French: vicomte), itself from Medieval Latin vicecomitem, accusative of vicecomes, from Late Latin vice- "deputy" + Latin comes (originally "companion"; later Roman imperial courtier or trusted appointee, ultimately count).

William Paulet

William Paulet, 4th Marquess of Winchester (born before 1598 – 1628), English courtier, son of William Paulet, 3rd Marquess of Winchester

Winifred Wells

Winifred Wells was a courtier at the Stuart Restoration court as a Maid of Honour to Queen consort Catherine of Braganza.


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