Madame d'Or

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Madame d'Or
Diedafter 1429
OccupationCourt jester
Known for"very graceful fool"

Madame d'Or (d. after 1429) was a French jester. The chronicler St Remy described her as a "moult gracieuse folle" (in English, something like "very graceful fool"). [1]

In 1429 Madame d'Or performed at the inauguration of the Order of the Golden Fleece in Bruges, Belgium. [2] Simeon Luce described her as "a dwarf no higher than a boot" and "gymnast of incomparable beauty, nimbleness, and athletic vigor" as related in Andrew Lang's biography of Joan of Arc. [3]

The Mitolo winery in the Australian wine region of McLaren Vale named a bottle of wine for Madame d'Or in 2013. [4]

References

  1. ↑ Dr. Doran (John) (1858). The History of Court Fools. R. Bentley. p.  63.
  2. ↑ The Anglo American. 1844. p. 610.
  3. ↑ Andrew Lang (2012). The Maid Of France (Annotated ed.). Jazzybee Verlag. ISBN   978-3-8496-0943-6.
  4. ↑ Kerry Skinner (20 October 2013). "BLOG: Jester brilliant labelling". Illawarra Mercury. Retrieved 24 January 2018.
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