Juggler

A juggler manipulates objects for recreation, entertainment, art or sport.

History

Baela Targaryen had a taste for companions who were considered to be unsuitable, which she would bring back to the Red Keep, and insist that they be granted a position in the castle, including a juggler.

An elderly dwarf juggler entertained people every day for years at the square by the Fountain of the Drunken God in Tyrosh.

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

In the night before the final jousts of the Hand's tourney, King Robert I Baratheon holds a riverside feast where a juggler spins burning clubs.

A Clash of Kings

When Wyman Manderly comes to Winterfell to partake in the harvest feast, he brings a retinue of northern knights and entertainers, including a juggler, all from White Harbor.

Tyrion Lannister names Lord Petyr Baelish a "master juggler" when referring to his skill at finances.

A Storm of Swords

A juggler is among the many performers at the wedding feast of King Joffrey I Baratheon. During Tyrion Lannister's trial for King Joffrey's murder, a juggler testifies to having seen Tyrion fill the wedding chalice.

A Dance with Dragons

During his visit to Fishfoot Yard, Davos Seaworth sees scribes, moneychangers, a hedge wizard, a herb women, and a bad juggler.

Penny tells Tyrion Lannister that the dwarf juggler had been found beheaded and dismembered at the Temple of Trios. Penny and Tyrion feel certain that the juggler's head was taken to King's Landing for Queen Cersei Lannister, who has put a bounty on Tyrion's head.

Quotes

Tyrion: The treasury is empty, I've told you that. We're not done paying the alchemists for all that wildfire, or the smiths for my chain, and Cersei's pledged the crown to pay half the costs of Joff's wedding—seventy-seven bloody courses, a thousand guests, a pie full of doves, singers, jugglers ...
Tywin: Extravagance has its uses. We must demonstrate the power and wealth of Casterly Rock for all the realm to see.

—Tyrion Lannister and Tywin Lannister