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[[Janus Dousa]] was a close friend: they had met during the time Rogers spent in Paris.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Paul Oskar Kristeller|author2=Virginia Brown|author3=Ferdinand Edward Cranz|coauthors=James Hankins|title=Catalogus Translationum Et Commentariorum|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=dsiKf4ZfKaUC&pg=PA241|accessdate=26 July 2013|date=1 March 2011|publisher=CUA Press|isbn=978-0-8132-1729-1|page=241}}</ref><ref name="Wilson1970"/> About three months after the foundation of the [[University of Leiden]] in 1575 by Dousa, Rogers wrote a commemorative poem.<ref>Van Dorsten, p. 9.</ref> In Paris Rogers also knew some of the poets of [[La Pléiade]] ([[Jean-Antoine de Baïf]], [[Jean Daurat]] and [[Guillaume des Autels]]), [[Florent Chrestien]], [[George Buchanan]], Franciscus Thorius and Germanus Valens Pimpontius.<ref>Van Dorsten, p. 13.</ref>
[[Janus Dousa]] was a close friend: they had met during the time Rogers spent in Paris.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Paul Oskar Kristeller|author2=Virginia Brown|author3=Ferdinand Edward Cranz|coauthors=James Hankins|title=Catalogus Translationum Et Commentariorum|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=dsiKf4ZfKaUC&pg=PA241|accessdate=26 July 2013|date=1 March 2011|publisher=CUA Press|isbn=978-0-8132-1729-1|page=241}}</ref><ref name="Wilson1970"/> About three months after the foundation of the [[University of Leiden]] in 1575 by Dousa, Rogers wrote a commemorative poem.<ref>Van Dorsten, p. 9.</ref> In Paris Rogers also knew some of the poets of [[La Pléiade]] ([[Jean-Antoine de Baïf]], [[Jean Daurat]] and [[Guillaume des Autels]]), [[Florent Chrestien]], [[George Buchanan]], Franciscus Thorius and Germanus Valens Pimpontius.<ref>Van Dorsten, p. 13.</ref>


Rogers joined the circle of Sir Philip Sidney in the 1570s, the nature of which is still debated, and his letters and poetry are significant sources for its activities. Evidence for the composition and interests of this group, the so-called Areopagus including [[Edward Dyer]] and [[Fulke Greville]], in [[prosody]], religious poetry and music, is in his correspondence.<ref>{{cite book |author=Roger Howell |title=Sir Philip Sidney: The Shepherd Knight |year=1968 |publisher=Hutchinson of London |isbn=09 086190 6 |pages=160–2}}</ref> Rogers wrote a long flattering poem addressed to Sidney, about his associations and future, from Ghent and dated 14 January 1579.<ref>Van Dorsten, pp. 61–7.</ref> In that year Rogers formed part of the opposition to Elizabeth's proposed marriage to the [[Francis, Duke of Anjou|Duc d'Alençon]], evidence of his attachment to Leicester and the Sidney circle.<ref>James E. Phillips, ''George Buchanan and the Sidney Circle'', Huntington Library Quarterly Vol. 12, No. 1 (Nov., 1948), pp. 23-55 at p. 24. Published by: University of California Press. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3815873</ref> He kept up an extensive correspondence with Buchanan, in particular on the proposed marriage, and it has been inferred that Sidney knew about it.<ref>{{cite book |author=Roger Howell |title=Sir Philip Sidney: The Shepherd Knight |year=1968 |publisher=Hutchinson of London |isbn=09 086190 6 |pages=217–8}}</ref> Through the group around Sidney, Rogers knew [[Paulus Melissus]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Peter J. French|title=John Dee: The World of an Elizabethan Magus|year=1984 |publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul |isbn=0-7102-0385-3|page=155}}</ref>
Rogers joined the circle of Sir Philip Sidney in the 1570s, the nature of which is still debated, and his letters and poetry are significant sources for its activities. Evidence for the composition and interests of this group, the so-called Areopagus including [[Edward Dyer]] and [[Fulke Greville]], in [[prosody]], religious poetry and music, is in his correspondence.<ref>{{cite book |author=Roger Howell |title=Sir Philip Sidney: The Shepherd Knight |year=1968 |publisher=Hutchinson of London |isbn=09 086190 6 |pages=160–2}}</ref> Rogers wrote a long flattering poem addressed to Sidney, about his associations and future, from Ghent, dated 14 January 1579 and thought to have been delivered by Languet a few weeks later.<ref>Van Dorsten, pp. 61–7.</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=[[Katherine Duncan-Jones|title=Sir Philip Sidney: Courtier Poet|year= |publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=0-300-05099-2|page=159}}</ref> In that year Rogers formed part of the opposition to Elizabeth's proposed marriage to the [[Francis, Duke of Anjou|Duc d'Alençon]], evidence of his attachment to Leicester and the Sidney circle.<ref>James E. Phillips, ''George Buchanan and the Sidney Circle'', Huntington Library Quarterly Vol. 12, No. 1 (Nov., 1948), pp. 23-55 at p. 24. Published by: University of California Press. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3815873</ref> He kept up an extensive correspondence with Buchanan, in particular on the proposed marriage, and it has been inferred that Sidney knew about it.<ref>{{cite book |author=Roger Howell |title=Sir Philip Sidney: The Shepherd Knight |year=1968 |publisher=Hutchinson of London |isbn=09 086190 6 |pages=217–8}}</ref> Through the group around Sidney, Rogers knew [[Paulus Melissus]].<ref>{{cite book |author=Peter J. French|title=John Dee: The World of an Elizabethan Magus|year=1984 |publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul |isbn=0-7102-0385-3|page=155}}</ref>


Rogers also had antiquarian tastes, and was a close friend of [[William Camden]], who quotes some Latin poems by him in his account of [[Salisbury]]. Rogers was also known to [[Jan Gruter]], and wrote to [[Hadrianus Junius]] asking him for early references to the history of Ireland.<ref name="DNB"/> In the late 1570s Rogers was having discussions with [[John Dee]], concerned with the conquests made by [[King Arthur]], and the titles of Queen Elizabeth. He may have brought Ortelius to [[Mortlake]] in 1577. As a consequence of a meeting Dee and Rogers had in 1578, the conquests of [[King Malgo]] were added to Dee's imperial schematic.<ref>{{cite book|author=Nicholas Clulee|title=John Dee's Natural Philosophy: Between Science and Religion|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=FAOvxls5fWwC&pg=PA291|accessdate=26 July 2013|date=15 February 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-63774-9|page=291 note 53}}</ref><ref>{{cite ODNB|id=7418|title=Dee, John|first=R. Julian|last=Roberts}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Donald F. Lach|title=Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume II: A Century of Wonder. Book 3: The Scholarly Disciplines|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=VToJrBPbQ9AC&pg=PA472|accessdate=27 July 2013|date=15 January 2010|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-46713-9|page=472}}</ref> Ortelius tried to have Rogers continue [[Humphrey Llwyd]]'s work in ancient [[chorography]], but without success, Rogers preferring the humanist literary approach.<ref>{{cite book |author=Peter J. French|title=John Dee: The World of an Elizabethan Magus|year=1984 |publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul |isbn=0-7102-0385-3|page=203}}</ref> At the end of his life Rogers was in touch with [[Bonaventura Vulcanius]], through Philips of Marnix, on the subject of [[runic alphabet]]s.<ref>{{cite book|author=Hélène Cazes|title=Bonaventura Vulcanius, Works and Networks: Bruges 1538 - Leiden 1614|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=1ExHmVzu2HsC&pg=PA423|accessdate=26 July 2013|date=19 November 2010|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-19209-6|page=423}}</ref>
Rogers also had antiquarian tastes, and was a close friend of [[William Camden]], who quotes some Latin poems by him in his account of [[Salisbury]]. Rogers was also known to [[Jan Gruter]], and wrote to [[Hadrianus Junius]] asking him for early references to the history of Ireland.<ref name="DNB"/> In the late 1570s Rogers was having discussions with [[John Dee]], concerned with the conquests made by [[King Arthur]], and the titles of Queen Elizabeth. He may have brought Ortelius to [[Mortlake]] in 1577. As a consequence of a meeting Dee and Rogers had in 1578, the conquests of [[King Malgo]] were added to Dee's imperial schematic.<ref>{{cite book|author=Nicholas Clulee|title=John Dee's Natural Philosophy: Between Science and Religion|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=FAOvxls5fWwC&pg=PA291|accessdate=26 July 2013|date=15 February 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-63774-9|page=291 note 53}}</ref><ref>{{cite ODNB|id=7418|title=Dee, John|first=R. Julian|last=Roberts}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Donald F. Lach|title=Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume II: A Century of Wonder. Book 3: The Scholarly Disciplines|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=VToJrBPbQ9AC&pg=PA472|accessdate=27 July 2013|date=15 January 2010|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-46713-9|page=472}}</ref> Ortelius tried to have Rogers continue [[Humphrey Llwyd]]'s work in ancient [[chorography]], but without success, Rogers preferring the humanist literary approach.<ref>{{cite book |author=Peter J. French|title=John Dee: The World of an Elizabethan Magus|year=1984 |publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul |isbn=0-7102-0385-3|page=203}}</ref> At the end of his life Rogers was in touch with [[Bonaventura Vulcanius]], through Philips of Marnix, on the subject of [[runic alphabet]]s.<ref>{{cite book|author=Hélène Cazes|title=Bonaventura Vulcanius, Works and Networks: Bruges 1538 - Leiden 1614|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=1ExHmVzu2HsC&pg=PA423|accessdate=26 July 2013|date=19 November 2010|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-19209-6|page=423}}</ref>

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Daniel Rogers (1538?–1591) was an Anglo-Flemish diplomat and politician, known as a well-connected humanist poet and historian.

Early life

The eldest son of John Rogers and his wife Adriana van der Weyden of Antwerp, he was born at Wittenberg about 1538. John Rogers the civilian was a brother, and went on some diplomatic missions with him. On his mother's side Rogers was related to Emmanuel van Meteren and Abraham Ortelius.[1]

Rogers came to England with his family in 1548, and was naturalised with them in 1552. After his father's death in 1555 he returned to Wittenberg, and studied under Philip Melanchthon.[2] He was taught also by Hubert Languet and Johannes Sturm.[1] He returned to England on Elizabeth I's accession, and graduated B.A. at Oxford in August 1561. Nicasius Yetswiert, Elizabeth's secretary of the French tongue, who had known his father, and whose daughter Susan Rogers afterwards married, introduced him to court.[2]

Rogers was then in Paris for nine years, with a break in Antwerp in 1565, and came under the influences of Petrus Ramus, and the contemporary eirenicism.[3] He was employed as a tutor by Sir Henry Norris, the English ambassador in Paris, between 1566 and 1570, and sent home intelligence to Secretary William Cecil. After that Francis Walsingham took over as ambassador there.[2][4]

Dutch and German diplomacy

In October 1574 Rogers went with Sir William Winter to Antwerp, and he accompanied a major embassy to the Netherlands, to treat with William the Silent, in June 1575.[2] Thomas Wilson the diplomat was a friend, and Rogers wrote epigrams for him;[5] Rogers, Wilson and Walsingham were in effect Elizabeth's staff for the Anglo-Dutch alliance, given final form by the Treaty of Nonsuch in 1585.[6]

Rogers was still engaged in diplomatic business in the Low Countries through 1576, and in March 1577 was there again to negotiate the terms on which Queen Elizabeth was to lend £20,000 to the States-General. This business occupied him till March 1578.[2] At this period Philips of Marnix, Lord of Saint-Aldegonde deciphered intercepted Spanish correspondence dealing with an invasion of England. Rogers passed it on to Walsingham.[7]

Discussions with William in July 1577 had given Rogers some perspective on the theological splits that were hampering Protestant diplomacy. The suggestion was that Frederik II of Denmark might act as honest broker. William considered that Frederik's close relationship with Augustus, Elector of Saxony offered some hope.[8] In early 1579 Rogers was sent by Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester to reconcile John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern, a friend, and William, who had fallen out over the Calvinists of Ghent.[9] In September 1580 he was sent to Augustus of Saxony, in order to calm dissensions which were threatening a schism among German Lutherans.[2]

The same month, on a mission to the Emperor Rudolf II, Rogers was captured by the irregular forces of Maarten Schenck van Nydeggen, and arrested on Imperial territory by Baron von Anholt, at the request of Philip II of Spain. He then spent four years in captivity at Buchholtz in the Bishopric of Münster. Hubert Languet wrote to Sir Philip Sidney, but the response from the English court was languid.[1][2][10] Stephen Le Sieur, an agent of Walsingham, attempted to free Rogers, but with no success, and was himself captured in 1585;[11] George Gilpin also made some unavailing efforts for his release.[12] It came through the baron's counsellor-at-law, Stephen Degner, a fellow-student under Melanchthon at Wittenberg, who paid off Rogers's gaolers.[2]

Later life

On 5 May 1587 Rogers was appointed a clerk of the privy council; he had already filled the office of assistant clerk.[2] He transacted further official business abroad, visiting Denmark in December 1587, and was able to get the king to subsidise Henry of Navarre.[13] He was there again in June 1588, when he conveyed expressions of sympathy from Queen Elizabeth to the young king on the death of his father Frederick II. On his own responsibility he made an arrangement under which the subjects of Denmark and Norway undertook not to serve the king of Spain against England. He was Member of Parliament for Newport, Cornwall in 1588–9.[2]

Rogers died on 11 February 1590–1, and was buried in the church of Sunbury beside his father-in-law's grave.[2]

Associations

Janus Dousa was a close friend: they had met during the time Rogers spent in Paris.[14][4] About three months after the foundation of the University of Leiden in 1575 by Dousa, Rogers wrote a commemorative poem.[15] In Paris Rogers also knew some of the poets of La Pléiade (Jean-Antoine de Baïf, Jean Daurat and Guillaume des Autels), Florent Chrestien, George Buchanan, Franciscus Thorius and Germanus Valens Pimpontius.[16]

Rogers joined the circle of Sir Philip Sidney in the 1570s, the nature of which is still debated, and his letters and poetry are significant sources for its activities. Evidence for the composition and interests of this group, the so-called Areopagus including Edward Dyer and Fulke Greville, in prosody, religious poetry and music, is in his correspondence.[17] Rogers wrote a long flattering poem addressed to Sidney, about his associations and future, from Ghent, dated 14 January 1579 and thought to have been delivered by Languet a few weeks later.[18][19] In that year Rogers formed part of the opposition to Elizabeth's proposed marriage to the Duc d'Alençon, evidence of his attachment to Leicester and the Sidney circle.[20] He kept up an extensive correspondence with Buchanan, in particular on the proposed marriage, and it has been inferred that Sidney knew about it.[21] Through the group around Sidney, Rogers knew Paulus Melissus.[22]

Rogers also had antiquarian tastes, and was a close friend of William Camden, who quotes some Latin poems by him in his account of Salisbury. Rogers was also known to Jan Gruter, and wrote to Hadrianus Junius asking him for early references to the history of Ireland.[2] In the late 1570s Rogers was having discussions with John Dee, concerned with the conquests made by King Arthur, and the titles of Queen Elizabeth. He may have brought Ortelius to Mortlake in 1577. As a consequence of a meeting Dee and Rogers had in 1578, the conquests of King Malgo were added to Dee's imperial schematic.[23][24][25] Ortelius tried to have Rogers continue Humphrey Llwyd's work in ancient chorography, but without success, Rogers preferring the humanist literary approach.[26] At the end of his life Rogers was in touch with Bonaventura Vulcanius, through Philips of Marnix, on the subject of runic alphabets.[27]

In Denmark for the state funeral in 1588, Rogers visited Tycho Brahe at Hven. Plans for Rogers to help him with publication in England were cut short when Rogers died.[28]

Works

Roger wrote copiously in neo-Latin verse. Most of it remained unpublished, much surviving in manuscript.[29] An obituary poem for Walter Haddon appeared in 1576.[30]

Verses in praise of John Jewel were appended to Lawrence Humphrey's Life of the bishop. Latin verses by him also figure in the preface to Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum and in Ralph Aggas's description of Oxford University, 1578.[2]

Family

In a Visitation of Middlesex dated 1634 it was said that Rogers had two children—a son Francis, who married a lady named Cory; and a posthumous daughter, Posthuma, who married a man named Speare.[2]

References

  • J. A. van Dorsten (1962). Poets, Patrons and Professors: Sir Philip Sidney, Daniel Rogers, and the Leiden Humanists. University of Leiden.

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Loudon, Mark. "Rogers, Daniel". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/23969. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). "Rogers, Daniel (1538?-1591)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 49. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  3. ^ Howell, pp. 158–9.
  4. ^ a b Charles Wilson (1 January 1970). Queen Elizabeth and the Revolt of the Netherlands. University of California Press. p. 82. ISBN 978-0-520-01744-3. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  5. ^ Albert J. Schmidt, Thomas Wilson and the Tudor Commonwealth: An Essay in Civic Humanism, Huntington Library Quarterly Vol. 23, No. 1 (Nov., 1959), pp. 49-60, at p. 60 note 29. Published by: University of California Press.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3816476
  6. ^ Charles Wilson (1 January 1976). The Transformation of Europe: 1558 - 1648. University of California Press. p. 159. ISBN 978-0-520-03075-6. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  7. ^ Simon Singh (24 June 2010). The Code Book: The Secret History of Codes and Code-breaking. HarperCollins Publishers. p. 62. ISBN 978-0-00-737830-2. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  8. ^ Paul Douglas Lockhart (1 January 2004). Frederik II and the Protestant Cause: Denmark's Role in the Wars of Religion, 1559-1596. BRILL. p. 178. ISBN 978-90-04-13790-5. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  9. ^ Adams, Simon. "Davison, William". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7306. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  10. ^ Sir Philip Sidney (2012). The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney. Oxford University Press. p. 1015 note 18. ISBN 978-0-19-955822-3. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  11. ^ H. R. Woudhuysen (23 May 1996). Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts, 1558-1640. Oxford University Press. p. 216. ISBN 978-0-19-159102-0. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  12. ^ Bell, Gary M. "Gilpin, George". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/10758. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  13. ^ Walther Kirchner, England and Denmark, 1558-1588, The Journal of Modern History Vol. 17, No. 1 (Mar., 1945), pp. 1-15, at p. 14. Published by: The University of Chicago Press. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1871532
  14. ^ Paul Oskar Kristeller; Virginia Brown; Ferdinand Edward Cranz (1 March 2011). Catalogus Translationum Et Commentariorum. CUA Press. p. 241. ISBN 978-0-8132-1729-1. Retrieved 26 July 2013. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  15. ^ Van Dorsten, p. 9.
  16. ^ Van Dorsten, p. 13.
  17. ^ Roger Howell (1968). Sir Philip Sidney: The Shepherd Knight. Hutchinson of London. pp. 160–2. ISBN 09 086190 6. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help)
  18. ^ Van Dorsten, pp. 61–7.
  19. ^ {{cite book |author=[[Katherine Duncan-Jones|title=Sir Philip Sidney: Courtier Poet|year= |publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=0-300-05099-2|page=159}}
  20. ^ James E. Phillips, George Buchanan and the Sidney Circle, Huntington Library Quarterly Vol. 12, No. 1 (Nov., 1948), pp. 23-55 at p. 24. Published by: University of California Press. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3815873
  21. ^ Roger Howell (1968). Sir Philip Sidney: The Shepherd Knight. Hutchinson of London. pp. 217–8. ISBN 09 086190 6. {{cite book}}: Check |isbn= value: length (help)
  22. ^ Peter J. French (1984). John Dee: The World of an Elizabethan Magus. Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 155. ISBN 0-7102-0385-3.
  23. ^ Nicholas Clulee (15 February 2013). John Dee's Natural Philosophy: Between Science and Religion. Routledge. p. 291 note 53. ISBN 978-0-415-63774-9. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  24. ^ Roberts, R. Julian. "Dee, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7418. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  25. ^ Donald F. Lach (15 January 2010). Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume II: A Century of Wonder. Book 3: The Scholarly Disciplines. University of Chicago Press. p. 472. ISBN 978-0-226-46713-9. Retrieved 27 July 2013.
  26. ^ Peter J. French (1984). John Dee: The World of an Elizabethan Magus. Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 203. ISBN 0-7102-0385-3.
  27. ^ Hélène Cazes (19 November 2010). Bonaventura Vulcanius, Works and Networks: Bruges 1538 - Leiden 1614. BRILL. p. 423. ISBN 978-90-04-19209-6. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  28. ^ Victor E. Thoren (1990). The Lord of Uraniborg: A Biography of Tycho Brahe. Cambridge University Press. p. 316. ISBN 978-0-521-35158-4. Retrieved 26 July 2013.
  29. ^ Van Dorsten, p. 11.
  30. ^ Lawrence V. Ryan, Walter Haddon: Elizabethan Latinist, Huntington Library Quarterly Vol. 17, No. 2 (Feb., 1954), pp. 99-124, at p. 120. Published by: University of California Press. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3816213
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