Guillén de San Clemente
Guillén de San Clemente (* 1550 in Catalonia , † September 3, 1608 in Prague ) was a Spanish diplomat .
Life
Ferdinand II sent Gullien de San Clement to Prague on July 13th, 1581 to negotiate a marriage contract for his son with Margaret of Austria .
In 1587 Ferdinand II. Gullien de San Clement sent his ambassador to Rudolf II from Vienna to Krakow to elect Ernst of Austria in Poland and instructed Enrique de Guzmán, the second Conde de Olivares, to influence the Holy See. Fearing the Ottoman Empire, Sixtus V overcame his antipathy towards the House of Habsburg and also supported Ernst von Austria's candidacy. Finally, Sigismund III sat down . Wasa in the election for the Polish king.
In 1594 a Russian delegation was in Prague. Philip II instructed Guillén de San Clemente to convince the Russian delegation that the tsarist authorities would confiscate English ships lying in Arkhangelsk .
Giordano Bruno dedicated a treatise on Ramon Llull to Guillén de San Clemente .
Publications
- Marqués de Ayerbe (ed.): Correspondencia inédita de don Guillén de San Clemente, embajador en Alemania de tos reyes Don Felipe II y III, sobre la intervención de España en los sucesos de Polonia y Hungría (1581–1608). Zaragoza, 1892, 399 pp.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Coleccion de los tratados de paz, alianza, neutralidad, garantia. 1740-602 pp. 8.
- ↑ Maija Jansson, NM Rogozhin, Paul Bushkovitch, England and the north: the Russian embassy of 1613-1614. 1994, p. 44.
- ^ John Robert Christianson: Tycho Brahe and Prague: crossroads of European science. 2002, p. 377.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Juan de Borja y Castro | Spanish ambassador in Krakow 1578–1579 and 1587 |
Vespasiano Gonzaga |
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Spanish ambassador to Germany 1581–1608 |
Baltasar de Zuñiga |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | San Clemente, Guillén de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1550 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Catalonia |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 3, 1608 |
| Place of death | Prague |