Adam Crusius
Adam Crusius or Crause (died 1608) was a German diplomat. He was from Bortfeld.
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In August 1594 he was sent to the baptism of Prince Henry at Stirling Castle as the representative of the Duke of Brunswick.[1] He attended a banquet in the Great Hall of Stirling Castle, and James VI danced for the ambassadors. A few days after, Crusius and Joachim von Bassewitz, the ambassador from Mecklenburg, co-hosted a banquet for the other diplomats in the Palace at the castle.[2]
Crusius presented a chain of gold pea-pods enameled with green, with a locket containing a miniature portrait of the Duke of Brunswick and the story of Diana and Actaeon on the lid, and a chain made of gold whelk shells for Anne of Denmark.[3] James VI of Scotland gave Crusius a gold chain weighing 30 ounces worth 300 French crowns provided by Thomas Foulis.[4]
He came to England for the coronation of King James in July 1603 and was lodged at Twickenham Park.[5] The Venetian diplomat Giovanni Carlo Scaramelli noted that, as an envoy of a relative of the queen, Crusius was lodged at the king's expense, at Kingston upon Thames. He attended a royal banquet with the Danish ambassadors on 5/15 August, where the toasts were given in German fashion.[6] The banquet marked the anniversary of the king's rescue from the Gowrie Conspiracy.[7]
He died in 1608. Johannes Caselius published an elegy.[8]
References[edit]
- ^ Thomas Birch, Life of Prince Henry (London, 1760), p. 3.
- ^ James Ferguson, Papers illustrating the history of the Scots brigade, vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1899), p. 163-4.
- ^ Thomas Rymer, Foedera, vol. 16 (London, 1715), p. 264 from British Library Cotton Caligula D II, see also BL Add MS 33531.
- ^ Miles Kerr-Peterson & Michael Pearce, 'James VI's English Subsidy and Danish Dowry Accounts', Scottish History Society Miscellany, XVI (Woodbridge, 2020), pp. 77, 87.
- ^ William Brenchley Rye, 'Coronation of King James', The Antiquary, 22 (London, 1890), p. 22.
- ^ Horatio Brown, Calendar State Papers, Venice: 1603-1607, vol. 9 (London, 1897), pp. 66-7, 77, 81.
- ^ John Nichols, Progresses of James the First, vol. 1 (London, 1828), pp. 246-7.
- ^ Johannes Caselius, Krosiades sive aulae magister (Helmstadt, 1609): Honori exequiarum Magni & generosi viri, dn. Adami Crausen In Borchfelda (Helmstadt, 1608)