What were the jesters religion in the middle ages of England?

Answer 1

There is no particular religion associated with court jesters. When Oliver Cromwell came to power in England, he did away with court jesters, but not because they were associated with a specific religion. Instead, the jester was associated with decadence and sloth, two things Puritans wanted to distance themselves from. Of course, jesters were featured in courts all throughout Europe, so their religions obviously varied.

The Jester or "The Fool" does have a connection to the occult in that The Fool is the first tarot card in the Major Arcana. There is some associated with the devil because of the headpieces the jesters wore, but that seems to merely have implied that the jester was wicked or impish, a little devil.

Jesters were very often disabled in some way, as well. They suffered from dwarfism, marfanism, or clubbed feet; really anything that made them appear outwardly unusual. These deformities were used to comedic effect, but there was a darker association with so called "freaks of nature".

For instance, Xerxes famously kept a human menageries of human oddities, and what could be more Unchristian to Puritanical Christians than a Persian conqueror who holds bawdy freak parties in his spare time.

Also, Christians saw the deformed or congenitally sick as being associated with the devil, because what they were suffering was apparently a curse or a blight from the dark one himself. If you want to know the individual religions of jesters, research specific ones. I believe the patron saint of Poles was himself a jester.