Discover diplomat, ambassador, art agent Henry Wotton

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: Wotton, Henry (Sir)

Qualifications: diplomat, ambassador, art agent, poet
Secretary to the Earl of Essex (1594-1600); diplomat in the service of King James; Provost of Eton College (1624-1639)

Nationality/school: English

Born: Kent (county) 1568-03-30/1568-03-20
Boughton or Bocton Hall

Deceased: Eton (Berkshire) 1639-12

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of an estate manager Thomas Wotton and his second wife Eleanor Morton; half-brother of Sir Edward Wotton, diplomat and courtier, Sir John Wotton, soldier an poet, and Sir James Wotton; travelled with his nephew Pickering Wotton, Sir Edward Wotton's eldest son (Smith 1907).

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Biographical information

Education: Winchester College (Winchester)

private education
New College (Oxford, England)

studied civil law; matriculated on 5 June 1584
Queen's College (Oxford, England)

graduated on 8 June 1588

Active in

Oxford (Engeland) 1584 - 1589-08
Heidelberg 1589-11-26 - 1590-04-10
at the University of Heidelberg he studied German, and attended the law lectures and disputations (Smith/Wotton 1966, p 10-11)
Frankfurt am Main (stad) 1590-05 - 1590
attended Mart, a gathering place of Germany, where merchants, travellers, authors and scholars would meet to exchange goods, ideas and arrange the publication of their work (Smith/Wotton 1966, p. 12)
Altdorf bei Nürnberg 1590 - 1590-10
went to the University of Nuremberg, where he spent the spring and summer, and finally left towards the end of October (Smith/Wotton 1966, p. 12-13)
Ingolstadt 1590
Jesuit University of Ingolstadt, where he made a short stop
Wenen (stad) 1590-11-11 - 1591-04
remained there for six months, among others, in the house of dr. Hugo Blotz, or Blotius, a learned Dutchman and librarian of the Imperial Library which was at Wotton's disposal during his stay (Smith/Wotton 1966, p. 14)
Praag 1591-04
Frankfurt am Main (stad) 1591-05 - 1591
Heidelberg 1591-08
Venetië 1591-11-04 - 1591-11-08
his first visit to Venice lasted only four days (Smith/Wotton 1966, p. 18).
Padua
Rome 1592-03 - 1592
Napels
spent a week there (Smith/Wotton 1966, p. 20)
Rome 1592
Florence 1592
remained there throughout the summer (Smith/Wotton 1966, p. 21)
Siena (plaats) 1592-10 - 1592
Rome 1593
spent a few weeks in Rome during his third visit (Smith/Wotton 1966, p. 22)
Genève (stad) 1593-06-22 - 1594-08-24
studied in Geneva (Schutte 1983); lodged at scholar Isaac Casaubon's house, where he stayed for fourteen months (Smith/Wotton 1966, p. 23).
Heidelberg
Leiden (stad)
Engeland 1594 - 1595
via Milan, Basel, Frankfurt, Cologne, and the Low Countries arriving on 17 July (Schlueter, and Dubischar 2015); agent and secretary of Earl of Essex (Schutte 1983).
Parijs 1595-12-13 - 1595
Cádiz (stad) 1596
sailed with Essex on the Cadiz expedition
Azoren (archipel) 1597
expedition
Dublin (stad) 1599
accompanied Essex on his expedition to Ireland; on April 14 they landed at Dublin
Italië 1601
travelled through Pisa on February 1601; to Florence on March 4, 1601; Rome April, 1601; Florence May 31, 1601.
Duitsland 1601
Denemarken 1601
Schotland
Hamburg (stad) 1602
March
Florence 1602
summer and autumn
Venetië 1603
May
Parijs 1603
December
Engeland 1604
April till summer
Venetië 1604 - 1610
first embassy to Venice
Turijn 1612
Rotterdam (stad) 1614
Den Haag (stad) 1614 - 1615
July 1614 till September 1615
Venetië 1616 - 1619
second embassy to Venice
Venetië 1621 - 1623
third embassy to Venice

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Literature

Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 372
Schutte 1983 , p. 63-64

H. Wotton, I. Walton, Reliquiae Wottonianae Or a Collection of Lives, Letters, Poems, London 1685
L.P. Smith, The life and letters of Sir Henry Wotton (2 vols.), Oxford 1907
L.P. Smith, H. Wotton, The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton, Oxford 1966
H. McBurney, ‘Sir Henry Wotton: Collector and Patron’, in: D. Howard and H. McBurney, The Image of Venice: Fialetti’s View and Sir Henry Wotton, London 2014, p. 100-113
J. Schlueter, M Dubischar, 'Traces of Henry Wotton in continental Alba Amicorum', Renaissance Studies 30 (2015), no. 5

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