Valet de chambre (French pronunciation: [valɛ də ʃɑ̃bʁ]), or varlet de chambre, was a court appointment introduced in the late Middle Ages, common from...

A valet or varlet is a male servant who serves as personal attendant to his employer. In the Middle Ages and Ancien Régime, valet de chambre was a role...

Chambre (French for chamber) may refer to: Chambre des Pairs Chambre des Députés Chambre de bonne Chambre introuvable Valet de chambre Chambre Ardente...

courtier title defined in the Table of Ranks, generally equating to valet de chambre or Groom of the Chamber. Yunker was a term for students of any military...

sequence of five Bontemps to hold the position of Premier valet de la Chambre du Roi ("First valet of the king's bedchamber") in uninterrupted succession...

Guillaume Lebel (1696–1768) or also Le Bel, was first chamber servant, or valet-de-chambre, of king Louis XV of France. He is mainly known in history for his...

painter with workshop assistants, and was employed as painter and valet de chambre to John III the Pitiless, ruler of the counties of Holland and Hainaut...

serve. Roxy is one-sixteenth black and majority white, and her son, Valet de Chambre (referred to as Chambers), is 1/32 black. Roxy is principally charged...

(1778–1845) was valet to Napoleon, Emperor of the French. He wrote "Mémoires de Constant, premier valet de chambre de l'empereur, sur la vie privée de Napoléon...

and other classes at court, although Alexandre Bontemps, the head valet de chambre of Louis XIV, was a late example of a "menial" who managed to establish...

usually shared for the local government and the mob. Valet Valet de chambre Trapito Car guard Franelero Valet boys have taken over Bangsar Baru Government needs...

the free dictionary. Varlet (/ˈvɑːrlət/) can refer to: Valet Knight's squire Valet de chambre, a court appointment introduced in the late Middle Ages...

Charles VI of France. Within the year Maloul accepted the position as valet de chambre and court painter to Charles's uncle Philip the Bold, the Duke of Burgundy...

important occasions. It is a local name for the old court position of valet de chambre. To be appointed is an honor. The appointee is an unpaid volunteer...

father, Anders van Wesel, served as apothecary to Maximilian and later valet de chambre to his successor, Charles V. Anders encouraged his son to continue...

the service of Philip the Bold on 22 January 1372 as ymagier et valet de chambre de Monseigneur. The next year he moved to Dijon on the command of the...

translation of the Vulgate which was presented to Charles V by his valet de chambre Jehan Vaudetar. It is now in the Westreen Museum at the Hague. These...

colleagues, asked that we look after his family, and asked that Cléry, his valet-de-chambre, be that of the queen; hurriedly he then said: “my wife.” In addition...

might be given a place in the household, often by appointing them as valet de chambre or the local equivalent. Among many of these households there are certain...

under Duke Charles the Bold (r. 1467–1477). In 1467, he was named valet de chambre. In 1469, he joined the illuminators' guild of Bruges. In 1479, King...

mentioned in 1377 as working for Philip the Bold, he later became valet de chambre to Louis I, Duke of Orléans from 1391 on and afterwards to his son...

could be a court office in the household of royalty, as a type of valet de chambre. In Switzerland, huissier is the French equivalent of German Weibel...

Macbeth). This might be a court appointment as the female equivalent to a valet de chambre. A woman with good manners and high standards of behaviour. From the...

French was still the language of the court, the title was varlet or valet de chambre. In German, Danish and Russian the term was "Kammerjunker" and in Swedish...

separated from the rest of the chambre du roi by a gilded balustrade. He was woken at eight o'clock by his head valet de chambre—Alexandre Bontemps held this...

de Marchand, premier valet de chambre et exécuteur testamentaire de l'empereur (in French). Vol. 1. Paris: Plon. p. 233. L'emploi de "conservateur de...

Balthazar Martinot (1636–1714) was a French clockmaker, and valet de chambre of the Queen and the King. His daughter Anne Martinot married the king's goldsmith...

overseen by Alexandre Bontemps (1626–1701), first valet of the king's bedchamber (premier valet de la chambre du roi), who secured a dowry of 40 000 livres...

family of Charles, Count of Angoulême (1459–96) in Cognac, and made Valet de Chambre to the family in 1484. When the Count of Angoulême died in 1496, Testard...

d'Angoulême, Madame Elisabeth, Sister of Louis XVI, and Cléry, the King's Valet de Chambre, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley. New York: The Lamb Publishing...