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. 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. 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.
James VI of Scotland gave Crusius a gold chain weighing 30 ounces worth 300
French crowns provided by
Thomas Foulis. 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
Kingston upon Thames. 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
Gowrie Conspiracy. He died in 1608. Johannes Caselius published an elegy. ==References==