Calixtus Schein (secretary)

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Calixtus Schein was a Danish secretary serving Anne of Denmark in Scotland in the 1590s.

Career

Schein brought letters from the Danish court to Elizabeth I in June 1587, and was given a gold chain.

Schein served as a secretary in the household of Anne of Denmark from 1589, and was given silk livery clothes before leaving Denmark. His name was recorded as "Johannes Calixtus" in a list of the household made in 1590. [1] His salary was £400 Scots annually. [2] The Queen-Consort's other secretary was the poet William Fowler, and their junior colleague was John Geddie. [3]

A wardrobe account includes clothes for Schein. His doublet and breeches of fine three-pile velvet, taffeta cloak, and "castour" hat was the most expensive costume bought for any of Anne's servants. [4]

Calixtus and Anne wrote to Christian IV of Denmark for permission for him to leave Scotland in August 1593. [5]

Another contemporary called "Calixtus Schein" was a magistrate in Lübeck.

References

  1. ↑ Calendar State Papers Scotland. 10, p. 373.
  2. ↑ Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, 22 (Edinburgh, 1878), pp. xlii, 121.
  3. ↑ Sebastiaan Verweij, The Literary Culture of Early Modern Scotland (Oxford, 2017), p. 96: Household roll, National Library of Scotland MS. 34.2.7.
  4. ↑ Michael Pearce, "Anna of Denmark: Fashioning a Danish Court in Scotland", The Court Historian, 24:2 (2019) p. 142. doi : 10.1080/14629712.2019.1626110
  5. ↑ Appendix to the 47th Report of the Deputy Keeper of Public Records (London, 1886), p. 30.
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