King cards of all four suits in theThe king is a with a picture of a king displayed on it. The king is usually the highest-ranking.

In the and decks, the king immediately overtakes the. In and, the king immediately outranks the.

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In and, the king immediately outranks the. In some games, the king is the highest-ranked card; in others, the is higher. Aces began outranking kings around 1500 with being the earliest known game in which the aces were highest in all four suits. In the of games such as and, both the ace and the 10 rank higher than the king. French Rouen pattern on the left, Spanish Toledo pattern on the rightThe king card is the oldest and most universal court card. It most likely originated in Persian where kings are depicted as seated on thrones and outranking the viceroy cards which are mounted on horses. Playing cards were transmitted to Italy and Spain via the.

The best preserved and most complete deck of Mamluk cards, the pack, did not display human figures but just listed their rank most likely due to religious prohibition. It is not entirely secure if the Topkapı pack was representative of all Mamluk decks as it was a custom-made luxury item used for display. A fragment of what may be a seated king card was recovered in Egypt which may explain why the poses of court cards in Europe resemble those in Persia and India. Evolution of the King of Hearts from the Rouennais pattern to the English patternSeated kings were generally common throughout Europe. During the 15th century, the Spanish started producing standing kings. The French originally used Spanish cards before developing their regional deck patterns.

Many Spanish court designs were simply reused when the French invented their own suit-system around 1480. The English imported their cards from until the early 17th century when foreign card imports were banned. The king of hearts is sometimes called the 'suicide king' because he appears to be sticking his sword into his head. This is a result of centuries of bad copying by English card makers where the king's axe head has disappeared.Starting in the 15th century, French manufacturers assigned to each of the court cards names taken from history or mythology. This practice survives only in the Paris pattern which ousted all its rivals, including the Rouen pattern around 1780. The names for the kings in the Paris pattern ( portrait officiel) are. Parlett, David (1990).

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