Juan de Idiáquez

Juan de Idiáquez (1540-1614) was a Spanish was the personal secretary of King Philip II of Spain, and state councillor to Philip III of Spain.

Juan de Idiáquez in Ruled Britannia
Willaim Shakespeare made the stil-living Juan de Idiáquez a character in the play King Philip in 1597. He cast Lope de Vega in the role as a means of distracting de Vega from the concurrent plans to stage Boudicca.