Apparently, Jesters were sent to battlefields to carry messages between leaders of warring armies, and enemies would sometimes 'kill the messenger' as an act of defiance, or sometimes use a catapult to hurl them back to their own camp to show what they thought of the message.
So there are two weak jesters in this battalion, hiding in plain sight, that do not want to service their queen. Unfortunately for you all, I don't care who they are, since lives are cheap and plenty, and will torture you all to death for being a bad army. So you noblemens are trying to lynch yourselves to spare your lives and die honorably, rather than as traitors. The jesters are trying to do the same as well. They have the advantage of being trained with psychological warfare to mock and abuse their enemies to erage them. Will the noblemen die honorably or be tortured by the queen?
sauce:
https://www.historyextra.com/period/...-court-jester/