When brought over to Italy and Spain, the thānī nā'ib was made into an infantry soldier or page ranking below the knight card. This was the lowest of the three court cards and like all court cards was depicted through abstract art or calligraphy. The earliest predecessor of the knave was the thānī nā'ib (second or under-deputy) in the Mamluk card deck.
History Knave of coins from the oldest known European deck ( c. The usual rank of a jack is between the ten and the queen. Jack cards of all four suits in the English patternĪ Jack or Knave, in some games referred to as a Bower, in Tarot card games as a Valet, is a playing card which, in traditional French and English decks, pictures a man in the traditional or historic aristocratic or courtier dress, generally associated with Europe of the 16th or 17th century. For other uses, see Knave of Hearts (disambiguation).
