George Gage (diplomat)

1614–1640) was an English Roman Catholic political agent and an art connoisseur.

[1] He was a great friend of Sir Toby Matthew, and seems to have received priest's orders with him from the hands of Cardinal Bellarmine at Rome on 20 May 1614.

[2] James I despatched him to Rome towards the close of 1621, in quality of agent to the papal court, to solicit a dispensation for the marriage of Prince Charles with the Spanish infanta Maria Anna (see the Spanish Match).

[3] Gage is described in 1627 as a prisoner in the Clink, being the agent of the Bishop of Chalcedon and of the seminary of Douay.

[4] He is referred to in the list of priests and recusants apprehended and indicted by Captain James Wadsworth and his fellow pursuivants between 1640 and 1651.