A courtier is a person who attends the royal court of a monarch or other royalty. The earliest historical examples of courtiers were part of the retinues of rulers. Historically, the court was the cen
Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester was a courtier favoured by Elizabeth I.
Baldassare Castiglione, Count of Casatico, was an Italian courtier, diplomat, soldier and a prominent Renaissance author.
Courtier
…Petyr Baelish and Varys from George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire. The Book of the Courtier, by Baldassare Castiglione Camarilla…
Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione by Raphael
The Ducal Palace at Urbino, setting of the Book of the Courtier.
"Il Cortigiano, Del Conte Baldessar Castiglione. Novamente stampato, et con somma diligentia revisto con la sua tavola di novo aggiunta. Con priuilegio. In Vinegia [Venice], appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari MDXLIX" (1549)