Jack (playing card) warrior) for the Jack of Hearts; Hector (mythological hero of the Iliad) for the jack of diamonds; and Lancelot or Judas Maccabeus for the jack of clubs. In some southern Italian decks, there are androgynous knaves that are sometimes referred to as maids. In the Sicilian Tarot deck, the knaves are unambiguously female and are also known as maids. As this deck also includes queens, it is the only traditional set to survive into modern times with two ranks of female face cards. This pack may have been influenced by the obsolete Portuguese deck which also had female knaves. The
Ober (playing card) The earliest description of playing cards in Europe comes from Johannes of Rheinfelden in 1377. He describes the recent introduction of cards in his region. For decks he regards as common, beneath the seated king were two marshals (cavalry commanders), with one holding his suit sign up while the other held his hanging down. This corresponds with modern obers and unters with the exception that they are no longer mounted on horseback. Card decks that contain four Obers are used, for example, in Skat, Mau Mau, Bavarian Tarock and Schafkopf. By contrast, the decks used to play Gaigel and Doppelkopf