Jester
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A jester, also known as joker, court jester, or fool, was a member of the household of a nobleman or a monarch kept to entertain guests at the royal court. Jesters were also travelling performers who
Woodcut of a jester by Heinrich Vogtherr the Younger, c. 1540
1404–1425, France. Two men smile at a jester's act, appearing to use a dog for a bagpipe.
Festival of the Archers. Master of Frankfurt, 1493. Two jesters are depicted in the centre of the picture.
King Lear and the Fool in the Storm by William Dyce
Jane Foole
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Jane Foole, also known as Jane The Foole, Jane, The Queen's Fool, "Jeanne le Fol" or "Jane Hir Fole", was an English court fool. She was the fool of queens Catherine Parr and Mary I, and possibly also
Jester
…their own army's spirits by singing songs and reciting stories. Henry VIII employed a jester named Will Sommers. His daughter Mary I was entertained by Jane Foole. During the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I, William Shakespeare wrote his plays and performed with his theatre company the Lord Chamberlain's Men…
Henry the Eighth and His Family (1545); the man at the far-right background is jester Will Somers, and it has been suggested that the woman at the far left is Jane Foole.
A closer image of a woman suggested to be Jane the Foole