Eksempler på courtier

• Combining the conflicting expectations pertaining to the warrior knight, courtier, gentleman scholar, and local lord, the basis of aristocratic rule was varied and contested.

• Patronized by courtiers and under the control of city magistrates, the theatre was also from its inception closely connected with government.

• The foster brother bursts in and throws a net that captures all the courtiers.

• In the mid-1750s, beyond the royal family's lodgings there remained 226 apartments free for courtiers.

• On numerous occasions the king presented one of his courtiers with the money for a house or even a house itself.

• Musical ability, then, was increasingly important to the successful courtier.

• Spreading out from the central body of the palace, they pushed the courtiers and princes of the blood ever further away from the king's apartments.

• They were not local notables originating out of the ranks of the resident population, but courtiers of the prince governing the region.