{{Short description|German diplomat}} '''Adam Crusius''' or '''Crause''', or '''Kruse''' (died 1608) was a German diplomat in the service of the Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg. He was from Bortfeld.
==Life and career== [[File:King's Outer Hall, Stirling Castle (5898046850).jpg|thumb|right|Adam Crusius hosted a banquet in the palace at Stirling Castle for the ambassadors in August 1594]] He studied at the Universities of Rostock and Helmstedt. In August 1594 he was sent to the baptism of Prince Henry at Stirling Castle as the representative of the Duke of Brunswick.<ref>Elizabeth Goldring, Faith Eales, Elizabeth Clarke, Jayne Elisabeth Archer, ''John Nichols's Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth: 1579-1595'', vol. 3 (Oxford, 2014), p. 745: Thomas Birch, ''Life of Prince Henry'' (London, 1760), p. 3.</ref> 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.<ref>James Ferguson, ''Papers illustrating the history of the Scots brigade'', vol. 1 (Edinburgh, 1899), p. 163-4.</ref>
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.<ref>Thomas Rymer, ''Foedera'', vol. 16 (London, 1715), p. 264 from British Library Cotton Caligula D II, see also BL Add MS 33531.</ref> James VI of Scotland gave Crusius a gold chain weighing 30 ounces worth 300 French crowns provided by Thomas Foulis.<ref>Miles Kerr-Peterson & Michael Pearce, 'James VI's English Subsidy and Danish Dowry Accounts', ''Scottish History Society Miscellany'', XVI (Woodbridge, 2020), pp. 77, 87.</ref>
He came to England for the coronation of King James in July 1603 and was lodged at Twickenham Park.<ref>William Brenchley Rye, 'Coronation of King James', ''The Antiquary'', 22 (London, 1890), p. 22.</ref> 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.<ref>Horatio Brown, ''Calendar State Papers, Venice: 1603-1607'', vol. 9 (London, 1897), pp. 66-7, 77, 81.</ref> The banquet marked the anniversary of the king's rescue from the Gowrie Conspiracy.<ref>John Nichols, ''Progresses of James the First'', vol. 1 (London, 1828), pp. 246-7.</ref>
He died in 1608. Johannes Caselius published an elegy.<ref>Johannes Caselius, ''Krosiades sive aulae magister'' (Helmstadt, 1609): [https://archive.thulb.uni-jena.de/ufb/rsc/viewer/ufb_derivate_00001263/Phil-4-00222-22_005.tif ''Honori exequiarum Magni & generosi viri, dn. Adami Crausen In Borchfelda'' (Helmstadt, 1608)]</ref>
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