David Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Playing cards=== For a considerable period, starting in the 15th century and continuing until the 19th, French [[playing card]] manufacturers assigned to each of the court cards names taken from history or mythology. In this context, the [[King of spades]] was often known as "David".<ref>{{cite web|last= Mikkelson |first= David|date=29 September 2007 |url= http://www.snopes.com/history/world/cardking.asp |title=Four Kings in Deck of Cards |website= Snopes |access-date= 2009-07-16 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20211119165841/http://www.snopes.com/history/world/cardking.asp |archive-date=2021-11-19|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.madore.org/~david/misc/cards.html |title=Courts on playing cards |url-status= live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120208003621/http://www.madore.org/~david/misc/cards.html |archive-date=2012-02-08 |first=David |last= Madore}} Illustrations of the Anglo-American and French court cards</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page