Who Are The Kings?

Who are the kings of playing cards?

  Have you ever wondered who the kings are in a deck of cards are or what the four suits mean.

The court deck was developed in Western Europe in the 16 century and became the standard design for England.

The English court deck has become the most common deck of playing cards. English court cards were never based on any historical royal figures.

However, card makers in France often assigned historical royals to the cards. This early practice was not standardized and who the face on the card represented was up to the maker of the player cards. During the 16th century, the industry standardized the representations to represent great rulers from history:

The King of Hearts