HUME, THOMAS [SSNE 121]

Surname

HUME, HOME, HEW

First name

THOMAS

Title/rank

COLONEL

Nationality

SCOT

Region

AYTON OR CAROLSIDE, BORDERS

Text source

Thomas Hume appears to have served in both the Swedish and Danish-Norwegian armies. He first appeared as an officer in James Seaton's [SSNE 3476] regiment in the Swedish army at Riga in 1624. He also served as a captain in the Danish army in March 1626 as a captain of horse in the cavalry. He then returned to the Swedish army, probably as a result of Christian IV of Denmark-Norway's capitulation to the Emperor in 1629, when many Scots in Danish service entered Swedish service. This may be the same Captain Thomas Hume who was written to by Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna in June 1632 and provided with a recruitment warrant for 200 Scots to supply a company for the Duke of Weimar's Scottish regiment. Hume was to recruit the Scots from Poland at his own expense, although the Swedes were to provide him with a muster station at Lauenberg in Prussia. Monro describes him as a lieutenant colonel by 1632 making him a likely candidate for the man described as Colonel Hume captured at Nordlingen in 1634. Certainly the editor of Sydnam Poyntz believed it to be he. Hume went on to serve as a colonel in France as part of Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar's cavalry, still in command of his company of Scots

 

Sources:

 

R. Monro, His Expedition with a worthy Scots Regiment called Mac-Keyes (2 vols., London, 1637), II, The List of the Scottish Officers in Chiefe; Swedish Krigsarkiv, Muster Roll, 1624/7; 1628/12; 1629/10,11,14; Rikskansleren Axel Oxenstierna's skrifter och brefvexling, first series, VII, pp.418-419; Anon., The Modern History of the World. Or An Historical Relation of the most memorable passages in Germany, and else-where, since the beginning of this present Yeere 1635 (London, 1635), A3; A.T.S. Goodrick (ed.), The Relation of Syndam Poyntz, 1624-1636 (London, 1908), p.111; Stephane Thion, French Armies of the Thirty Years' War (Auzielle, 2008), p.86; G. Lind, Danish Data Archive, 1573.

Service record

SWEDEN, JAMES SEATON, RIGA HOFREGIMENT

Arrived 1624-01-01, as CAPTAIN

Departed 1624-12-31, as CAPTAIN

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY

DENMARK-NORWAY, COURVILLES ARKEBUSERREGIMENT

Arrived 1626-01-01, as CAPTAIN

Departed 1628-07-18, as CAPTAIN

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY

SWEDEN, RHINGREVEN'S CAVALRY

Arrived 1628-01-01, as CAPT OF HORSE

Departed 1629-12-31, as CAPT OF HORSE

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY

SWEDEN, DUKE BERNHARD OF SAXE-WEIMAR'S REGIMENT

Arrived 1632-01-01, as CAPTAIN

Departed 1634-09-06, as LIEUTENANT COLONEL?

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY

FRANCE, DUKE BERNHARD OF SAXE-WEIMAR'S REGIMENT

Arrived 1635-09-15, as COLONEL

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY