Talk:King (playing card)

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Charles Magne is often portrayed carrying his Imperial Orb. In the Urban Legend link, the Charles card in the first set is clearly the hearts, but in the latter, it looks like clubs. I saw somewhere on a older version of some playing cards related wikipedian article a complete naming of all cards showing Charles as being of clubs, unfortunatelly I lost it. It explained well the controversy, sorry it got lost. 189.5.169.174 23:45, 28 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Four King Thruth link below shows us in a first set of cards a King of Hearts holding an imperial orb in a way much like the King of Clubs of the second cards set, and very like Charlemagne as portrayed here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Charlemagne-by-Durer.jpg Besides, in http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~daf/i-p-c-s.org/faq/history_13.php (see also of transformation playing cards), there are two main patterns of royal families. The deck clearly seen on this article photo shows an Rouen pattern with Charlemagne as Clubs. Based on that, and that all decks I've ever saw were like those, I'm fixing jack and queen articles to look rouenian. 189.5.137.204 03:27, 31 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

King of Hearts and Diamonds[edit]

I apologize for posting here without an account (I'm just a wikipedia surfer). I was wondering about the King of Hearts being linked to Charlemagne instead of Julius Caesar, who is instead represented by the King of Diamonds. I was taught once that the King of Hearts was Julius Caesar because in the portrait of the King of Hearts, the king is being stabbed in the back by another hand. Julius Caesar's death was supported by his right hand man, Brutus, so it represented him being stabbed in the back by his ally. Please clarify this to me! Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.69.193.168 (talk) 02:24, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed merge with King of spades[edit]

Proposed merge with King of clubs[edit]

Not enough content in either to justify an entire article. p b p 20:43, 14 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Suicide kings[edit]

In my poker experience, explained in some places like this, "suicide kings" means both the king of hearts and the king of diamonds, although that convention is apparently a minority. Art LaPella (talk) 05:09, 1 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]