Draft:List of Renaissance and Reformation Latin Secretaries

The position of Latin Secretary to some great churchman or prince had a long and distinguished history: Jerome had been the Latin Secretary for Pope Damasus I. The position was important but not lucrative, unless a stepping-stone to other offices, and not limited to clergy. The role could span translator, speech-writer, diplomat, minor deputy, penman, expeditor and librarian and, by its nature, introduced the secretary into the network of other Latin secretaries. A notable Latin secretary who interacted extensively with such a network was Erasmus of Rotterdam.

It was known by many names, but the distinguishing mark is it added lustre to the master to employ a humanist of high literary capability. Many Latin secretaries were poets or writers including, outside this period, Andrew Marvell and John Milton (both for Oliver Cromwell).

1400s

 * Juan de Mena - King Juan II de Castilla
 * Jacopo Piccolomini-Ammannati - Pope Calistus III
 * Poggio Bracciolini - seven Popes Boniface IX to Nicholas V
 * Maffeo Vegio - Pope Eugenius IV
 * Lorenzo Valla - King Alfonso V of Aragon
 * Leon Battista Alberti - Roman Curia
 * Bartolomeo Scala - Medici Florence
 * Thomas Beckington - King Henry VI of England
 * Aeneas Silvius (Pope Pius II) - Antipope Felix V, Emperor Frederick III], Pope Eugenius IV
 * Alfonso de Palencia - Henry IV of Castile

1500s
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 * Juan de Vergara - Archbishop Ximenez de Cisneros, Archbishop Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca
 * Venclovas Mikolajaitis - Sigismund I the Old
 * Pietro Carmeliano - King Henry VII
 * Guillaume Budé - King Louis XII
 * Erasmus- Henry, Bishop of Cambrai
 * Pietro Bembo - Pope Leo X
 * Jacopo Sadoleto - Pope Leo X
 * Richard Pace - King Henry VIII
 * Andrea Ammonio - Lord Mountjoy, King Henry VII, King Henry VIII
 * Hieronymus Emser - Cardinal Raymond Peraudi
 * Cornelius Grapheus - Antwerp
 * Diego Gracián de Alderete - King Philip II of Spain
 * Johannes Secundus - Bishop of Utrecht, Emperor Charles V
 * Dominicus Lampsonius - Cardinal Reginald Pole
 * Juan de Valdés, Alfonso de Valdés - Emperor Charles V
 * Peter Vannes - Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, King Henry VIII, King Edward I
 * Johannes May - Ferdinand I
 * Costanzo Tassone - Bishop Charles Borromeo
 * Cardinal Silvio Antoniano - Archbishop Charles Borromeo
 * Roger Ascham - Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Mary I
 * Martín de Ávila - Spanish clergy and royalty
 * Philipp Gundelius - Cardinal Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg
 * Justus Lipsius - Cardinal Granvella
 * John Wolley (MP) - Elizabeth I
 * Gentian Hervetus - Cardinal Cervini
 * Jan Łaski - Sigismund II
 * Filipo Bonamici - Pope Pius VI, Pope Clement XIV
 * Oliver Starkey - Grand Master Jean Parisot de la Valette
 * Francisco Cervantes de Salazar - Cardinal García de Loaysa
 * Antonio Possevino - Jesuit Superior General Everard Mercurian
 * Thomas Smith - Queen Elizabeth I
 * John Cecil aka John Snowden - Cardinal William Allen
 * Robert Turner - Archduke Ferdinand I
 * Daniel Hermann Borussus - imperial court, Vienna (1570w)
 * John Joscelyn - Bishop Matthew Parker
 * Henry Savile - Queen Elizabeth I
 * Johann Barvitius - H.R.E Rudolph II