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Which European card makers first used queens as court cards?
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Euchre hand with the five highest cards if spades are trump.
Contrary to the popular belief that the French were the first to introduce the queen as a court card, it was actually German card makers who first replaced the upper viceroy with a queen. However, these German makers subsequently reverted to the male upper viceroy in their designs.1