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    What was the responsibility of the "groom of the stool"?

    Question #116695. Asked by star_gazer. (Aug 12 10 6:31 PM)


    serpa

    		The appellation "Groom of the Stool" (derived from the item of furniture now known as a Commode or portable lavatory,[3] (Old English & Norse Stol or Stoll meaning a chair))[4] was in the earliest times a male servant in the household of an English monarch who was in charge of providing at all times adequate and seemly facilities for the monarch's natural bodily function of excretion or defecation, and indeed assisted in the facilitating of his bodily functions and in his cleansing or washing thereafter.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groom_of_the_Stool

    Aug 12 10, 7:51 PM
    star_gazer

    		Correct!

    The groom of the stool was in charge of cleaning the king's rear end.

    http://royal-arse-wiper.web-word.eu/start/universalis.php?ref=Royal-Arse-Wiper&dom=web-word.eu&page=403

    Aug 12 10, 9:29 PM

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