{{Short description|Dutch Jesuit and papal diplomat}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} '''Nicholas Goudanus''' (also '''de Gouda''') (c.1517–1565) was a Dutch Jesuit and papal diplomat. thumb|Nicholas Goudanus.
==Life== His surname was originally Floris (Florisz). He worked with Peter Canisius on the mission to reclaim German Protestants to Catholicism. In 1557 they had been together at the Colloquy of Worms.<ref name="McCoog">{{cite book|author=Thomas M. McCoog|title=The Society of Jesus in Ireland, Scotland, and England 1541-1588: "our Way of Proceeding?"|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BB4u8Lg9-lwC&pg=PA56|access-date=25 May 2012|year=1996|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-10482-2|pages=56–7}}</ref>
Goudanus went on a covert diplomatic mission, under instructions of the end of 1561 sent by Alfonso Salmeron, via Everard Mercurian.<ref name="Pollen">John Hungerford Pollen, ''Papal Negotiations with Mary, Queen of Scots: during her reign in Scotland 1561-1567'' (1901), pp. lii–lvi; [https://archive.org/stream/papalnegotiation00polluoft#page/lii/mode/2up archive.org].</ref> He arrived in Scotland on 5 July 1562,<ref>{{ODNBweb|id=12102|title=Hamilton, John|first=Janet P.|last=Foggle}}</ref> or landed earlier than that in Leith, having sailed in June.<ref name="Pollen"/> He was accompanied by Edmund Hay and Jean Rivat as interpreters,<ref name="McCoog"/> and had a meeting with Mary Queen of Scots, as papal legate, at Holyrood Palace.<ref>{{ODNBweb|id=12713|title=Hay, Edmund|first=Alasdair|last=Roberts}}</ref> The Queen turned down a request to send Scottish representatives to the Council of Trent, then winding up.<ref>{{cite book|author=Retha M. Warnicke|title=Mary Queen of Scots|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i8kD_XkHcNcC&pg=PA74|access-date=25 May 2012|date=24 March 2006|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-415-29182-8|page=74}}</ref> Only one of the Scottish bishops, Robert Crichton, was prepared to give him an interview;<ref>John Dowden, John Maitland Thomson (editor), ''The Bishops of Scotland: being notes on the lives of all the bishops, under each of the sees, prior to the reformation'' (1912), p. 94; [https://archive.org/stream/bishopsofscotlan00dowdrich#page/94/mode/2up archive.org].</ref> Henry Sinclair was instructed to meet Goudanus by the Queen, but refused.<ref name="Pollen"/>
The mission lasted to September 1562.<ref>{{CathEncy|wstitle=Hay}}</ref> Goudanus left the country with some difficulty, with William Crichton who had been the advance party, and who was a relation of Robert Crichton.<ref name="McCoog"/><ref name="Pollen"/><ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Crichton, William (fl.1615)}}</ref> His report to Diego Laynez was discouraging.<ref name="Wormald2001">{{cite book|author=Jenny Wormald|title=Mary, Queen of Scots: Politics, Passion and a Kingdom Lost|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5XtL-F1LKUcC&pg=PA128|access-date=25 May 2012|date=4 May 2001|publisher=Tauris Parke Paperbacks|isbn=978-1-86064-588-4|page=128}}</ref> One consequence of the mission was that six Scots were recruited to the Jesuits.<ref>{{CathEncy|wstitle=History of the Jesuits Before the 1773 Suppression}}</ref>
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