Page (servant)

A page is a young male servant.

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In medieval times, a page was an attendant to a knight, an apprentice ranking below a squire. By the age of seven, a young boy served as a page. For seven years, until he was fourteen, the page served a knight.

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Medieval times - Knight - Apprentice - Squire

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Pages were also servants in castles and great houses or attendants on aristocrats and royalty. According to the International Butler Academy www.butlerschool.com, these pages were apprentice footmen. Unlike the hall boys, these pages performed light odd jobs and were liveried when the aristocrat was entertaining. It became fashionable for young black boys to be decorative pages, placed into fancy costumes and attending fashionable ladies.

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Castles - Great house - Aristocrat - Royalty - Www.butlerschool.com - Footmen - Hall boy - Liveried - Black - Ladies

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A reference to the servant page is found in the Christmas carol Good King Wenceslaus: "Hither, page, and stand by me, if thou know'st it, telling...."

Related Topics:
Christmas carol - Good King Wenceslaus

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This type of page is almost unheard of today outside of royal residences.

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