DE SYLVIUS, GABRIEL [SSNE 4426]
- Surname
- DE SYLVIUS
- First name
- GABRIEL
- Title/rank
- SIR
- Nationality
- ENGLISH
Text source
Sir Gabriel Sylvius undertook diplomatic missions to Brandenburg-Prussia, Braunschweig-Luneberg-Celle and Braunschweig-Luneburg-Calenberg in 1669. HE was engaged in negotiations with the Dutch in 1676 in London and later served as an envoy in Denmark-Norway and northern Germany c.1680-1688, accompanied by his secretary Thomas Fotherby. During this mission he travelled to Hesse-Kassel in 1680 and Braunschweig-Luneburg-Wolfenbuttel in 1681. Dispatches from him dated June 1685 to June 1686 from Denmark to Lord Middleton still survive. He thereafter became British Resident in Hamburg in 1686L. Bittner and L. Gross, Reportorium der diplomatischen vertreter aller lander, vol. 1, 1648-1715 (Oldenburg and Berlin, 1936), pp.180-1; Bodleian Library Rawlinson MSS John Thurloe Papers A 1-67; Hamburg Staatsarchiv, 177/2b 'Diplomatenlisten' I, p.43; Additional Manuscripts of the Sloane Collection 41828, Historical Manuscripts Commission 6:7th.
Service record
- STUART KINGDOMS, BRANDENBURG-PRUSSIA, BERLIN, HANNOVER, LONDON
- Arrived 1669-01-01
- Capacity ENVOY, purpose DIPLOMACY
- STUART KINGDOMS, DENMARK-NORWAY, HAMBURG
- Arrived 1682-01-01
- Departed 1688-12-31
- Capacity ENVOY, purpose DIPLOMACY