COURTIER

A 'courtier' is a person who attends upon, and thus receives a privileged position from a powerful person, usually a head of state. In the United States, the term has taken on negative connotations as a synonym for favorite or hanger-on.
It is usually also used in a historical context, especially to describe the attendants of a luxurious autocrat such as Louis XIV of France. This context is used by many to make the word quaintly old-fashioned and irrelevant in contemporary circumstances, although "placemen" and rewarded campaign-donors in the American political system are contemporary examples of ''de facto'' courtiers.

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Examples of famous courtiers

See also

Examples of famous courtiers

★ Anne Boleyn

★ The princesse de Lamballe

★ The duc de Luynes

★ The marquis de Cinq-Mars

★ The duc de Saint-Simon

★ Einhard - Courtier of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious

★ Forsyths were courtiers of the Scottish Kings at Falkland Palace.

★ Sir Francis Bacon

★ Madame de Pompadour

See also

★ ''The Book of the Courtier'' by Baldassare Castiglione