DRUMMOND, LUDVIG [SSNE 2417]
- Surname
- DRUMMOND
- First name
- LUDVIG, LUDWIG, LOUIS
- Title/rank
- LT. COLONEL
- Nationality
- SCOT
- Social status
- OFFICER
Text source
Ludovick Drummond entered Swedish service in the 1650's, after service at the Battle of Worcester on the Royalist side in 1651. He served as a lieutenant colonel in William Cranstoun's [SSNE 2101] regiment from 1656-1658. Some sources say he was killed at the siege of Copenhagen on 3 January 1658/1659 and was buried at Elsinore, though others put the date at 11/21 February 1659Sir Roger Manley, The History of the late Warres in Denmark (London, 1670), p.51; Swedish Krigsarkiv, Muster Roll, 1656/10; Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage (8 vols., Edinburgh, 1904-1911), VIII, p.218; Johann Philipp ABELINUS/Matthaeus MERIAN, Theatrum Europaeum, vol. 8, (Frankfurt/Main 1693), p. 1148 (http://digbib.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/8). Jürgen STROTHMANN (Ed.), Westfalen und Europa im 17. Jahrhundert. Die Chronik des Adolff Wilhelm Moerbecke zu Stevening 1633-1672 (Münster 2000), p. 268.
Service record
- SWEDEN, WILLIAM CRANSTON
- Arrived 1656-01-01
- Departed 1659-02-21, as LT. COLONEL
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY