MONRO, JOHN [SSNE 138]
- Surname
- MONRO, MONROE, MUNRO, MUNROE, OF ASSYNT (ASSENS)
- First name
- JOHN
- Title/rank
- LIEUTENANT COLONEL
- Nationality
- SCOT
- Region
- ASSYNT, SUTHERLAND
- Social status
- OFFICER
Text source
John Monro was a younger son of Hector Monro of Assynt. Monro was noted as a captain in Danish-Norwegian service from 1626-29. He survived this period and then took Swedish service as lieutenant-colonel to John Monro of Obsdale [SSNE 178]. According to J. Grant, there were 27 field-officers and captains called Monro of Assynt!. That John Monro of Assynt served in Sweden is recorded by Peter Young who noted him as Lieutenant Colonel in the Royalist Army (Earl of Lindsey's Regiment) at Edgehill in October 1642. Monro died on the battlefield on that day. When Lindsey was killed the regiment transferred to Patrick Ruthven, Earl of Forth.
J. Grant, Memoirs and Adventures of Sir John Hepburn, (Edinburgh, 1851), p.254; G. Lind, Danish Data Archive 1573; T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), II, p.125; 'Mackay's Regiment' in Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, VIII, 1879, p.187. Peter Young, Edgehill 1642 (Kineton, 1967), p.226; The Munro Tree: A Genealogy and Chronology of the Munros of Foulis and Other Families of the Clan, ed. R. W. Munro (Edinburgh, 1978), Q/36; R. Gordon, A Genealogical History of the Earldom of Sutherland (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 402, 450, 511; J. Mackay, An Old Scots Brigade (Edinburgh, 1885), pp. 47, 81-2, 111-2, 206; Steve Murdoch and Alexia Grosjean, Alexander Leslie and the Scottish Generals of the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 (London, 2014), p.121.
This entry has been kindly updated by Dr Thomas Brochard
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Service record
- DENMARK-NORWAY, MACKAY'S REGIMENT
- Arrived 1626-03-15, as CAPTAIN
- Departed 1629-06-11, as CAPTAIN
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY
- SWEDEN, MACKAY'S REGIMENT
- Arrived 1630-01-01, as CAPTAIN
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY
- STUART KINGDOMS, EDGEHILL, BERTIE'S REGIMENT
- Arrived 1642-10-21, as LIEUTENANT COLONEL
- Departed 1642-10-21
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY