Talk:Lord of the Bedchamber

message: According to family lore, one of my ancestors, one of the Lords Kirkcudbright, served as Lord of the Bedchamber under one of the Stuart Kings.  Unfortunately, that's all family lore had to say on the matter, As yet, I haven't even found which one it was.  As I hope to update this article, as well as the Kirkcudbright page, with this information, (once we can cite it,of course) I was wondering if anyone had any information on the matter.76.179.230.4 (talk) 08:15, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably Robert Maclellan, 1st Lord Kirkcudbright. The article says "Gentleman of the Bedchamber", but this is just how the office was known before the Hanoverian monarchs, yet more so because he wasn't ennobled until 1633. Craigy (talk) 12:04, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kirkcudbright connection? 

message: slept in a pallet bed in the same room with the king; and in the ante-room between the privy chamber and the bedchamber (in the reign of King Charles II. at least) slept the groom of the bedchamber. In the privy chamber next adjoining, slept two of the six gentlemen of the privy chamber in waiting ; and in the presence chamber, the esquire of the body on a pallet bed, upon the haut pas, under the cloth of estate ; while one of the pages of the presence chamber slept in the same room, without the verge of the canopy, not far from the door. All these temporary beds were put up at night, and displaced in the morning, by the officers of a particular branch of the wardrobe, called the wardrobe of beds.
" After supper, previous to the king's retiring to his bedchamber, the proper officers were to see all things furnished for the night, some for the king's bedchamber, and others for the king's cup-board, which was sometimes in the privy chamber, and sometimes in the presence chamber, at the royal pleasure, and furnished with refections for the king's refreshment, if called for. After this, the officers of the day retired, and committed all to the charge of the esquire of the body. This dome-stick ceremony was called the Order of All Night ; the nature of which I shall now give at large from an account preserved in the Lord'''
" The Rome and service belonging to a Page of the kyngs Chamber to doo.
" Item, the said Pageis at nyght, at season convenyent, must make the payletts for knyghts and squyers for the body, in suche a chamber as they shalbe appoynted unto.
" Item, the said pageis shall doo make redy the'said knyghts and Squyers for the body, and bere theyr gere to the kyngs great chamber at the instaunce of the said knyghts and squyers to their servaunts: And the said pageis to receive of the said knyghts and squyers servaunts such nyght gere as they shall delyver theym for their said maistres. Thus don, the said pageis to make sure the fyere and lights in every chamber, and so to make their paylet at the chamber dore where the said knyghts and Squyen do lye."Eddaido (talk) 00:29, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  the lord of the bedchamber, 

message: Just wondering out of curiosity. I can't seem to find any info on when the position's name changed.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.231.109.104 (talk) 02:53, 3 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  When did the Gentlemen of the Bedchamber become Lord of the Bedchamber?