What are the characteristics of a courtier?

Question

What are the characteristics of a courtier?

name 3 traits.

Answer 1

A courtier is suave, tactful, and an easy conversationalist.

A gentleman, in other words.

Answer 2

---Courtiers were attendants of a monarch. Not necessarily noble, they included clergy soldiers, clerks, secretaries, agents, and middlemen of all sorts.  

---A courtier was primarily characterized as someone with immediate access to the king and someone who could pass information.

---Early modern literature, however, depicts courtiers as insincere flatterers; therefore, synonyms, such as "sycophant" and  "favorite" are commonly used to describe courtiers.

Answer 3

Google "Baldassare Castiglione", who wrote an entire book answering your question.