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A young person who works as a personal attendant for a noble or member of a royal household.

"Where hast thou left that page of thine, That used to serve thy cup of wine?"

Sir Walter Scott, Marmion (1808).

"The Fastolfs were a well-known Norfolk family of many branches, one of which settled at Caister, near Yarmouth, and there John Fastolf was born about 1378. His father had inherited Caister and other manors, and had also bought much property in Norfolk, so that the young Fastolf spent the earliest years of his life in comfortable surroundings, and then probably found himself, as was the custom of the day, at some seven or eight years of age sent to live in the household of a friend or acquaintance, where as a page he would be called upon to perform minor services for his lord and lady. As he waited on them in hall and in bower many important and many trivial details of everyday life and manners would be borne in on him. With good fortune he would learn to read, and even to write; to speak correctly; to play upon some instrument; to dance; to perform simple services with horse and hound."

Six Medieval Men & Women, "Sir John Fastolf," H. S. Bennett (1955).