Courtier

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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.

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

See also

• The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione

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