attendant, attender, tender - someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another

Damocles - the Greek courtier to Dionysius the Elder who (according to legend) was condemned to sit under a naked sword that was suspended by a hair in order to demonstrate to him that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was (4th century BC)

Comtesse Du Barry, Du Barry, Marie Jeanne Becu - courtier and influential mistress of Louis XV who was guillotined during the French Revolution (1743-1793)

Ralegh, Raleigh, Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Raleigh, Walter Ralegh, Walter Raleigh - English courtier (a favorite of Elizabeth I) who tried to colonize Virginia; introduced potatoes and tobacco to England (1552-1618)

Sir John Suckling, Suckling - English poet and courtier (1609-1642)