Adam Crusius or Crause (died 1608) was a German diplomat. He was from Bortfeld.

Life and career

In August 1594 he was sent to the baptism of Prince Henry at

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as the representative of the

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. He attended a banquet in the Great Hall of Stirling Castle, and

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danced for the ambassadors. A few days after, Crusius and Joachim von Bassewitz, the ambassador from

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, co-hosted a banquet for the other diplomats in the Palace at the castle. 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

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gave Crusius a gold chain weighing 30 ounces worth 300 French crowns provided by

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. He came to England for the coronation of King James in July 1603 and was lodged at Twickenham Park. 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

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. He attended a royal banquet with the Danish ambassadors on 5/15 August, where the toasts were given in German fashion. The banquet marked the anniversary of the king's rescue from the

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. He died in 1608. Johannes Caselius published an elegy.Johannes Caselius, ''Krosiades sive aulae magister'' (Helmstadt, 1609)
''Honori exequiarum Magni & generosi viri, dn. Adami Crausen In Borchfelda'' (Helmstadt, 1608)
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Crusius, Adam People from the Duchy of Brunswick Diplomats People from Brunswick-Lüneburg 16th-century births 1608 deaths Year of birth unknown