George Spalatin

He went to Nuremberg for his education when he was thirteen years of age, and soon afterward to the University of Erfurt, he received his bachelor's degree in 1499.

He was also promoted to be court chaplain and secretary and took charge of all the elector's private and public correspondence.

How he first became acquainted with Luther is unknown — probably at Wittenberg — but the reformer became his chief counselor in all moral and religious matters.

[1] Spalatin accompanied Frederick to the Diet of Augsburg in 1518, and shared in the negotiations with the papal legates, Thomas Cajetan and Karl von Miltitz.

He was with the elector when Charles V was chosen emperor and crowned and at the Diet of Worms, through all the troubled diplomacy of the earlier years of the Reformation.