KINNEMOND, PATRICK [SSNE 2838]
- Surname
- KINNEMOND, KINNINMONTH, KINNINMOND, KINIMUND, KYNINMENT, KüNEMUND, KYNEMUND
- First name
- PATRICK
- Title/rank
- COLONEL
- Nationality
- SCOT
- Region
- CALENSK
- Social status
- OFFICER
Text source
Patrick Kinnemond was born in Calensk in Scotland and joined the Swedish army in 1624 as an ensign in Alexander Leslie's [SSNE 1] Södermanland regiment. In 1625-6 he was with Varmlands regiment and then transferred to William Lawson's [SSNE 2899] infantry. In 1635 he became lieutenant (although other sources note him as colonel of an infantry regiment) after service in George Douglas's [SSNE 2357] company of James Ramsay's [SSNE 3315] regiment, and in 1638 he was commandant in Anklam. In 1639 he served under Johan Banérs command and in May became commandant of Pirna [Saxonia]. It is probable that Patrick died in 1639 during the seige of Seisshübel (in some sources being shot by his own side for failing to use his own password, in others, having shot himself). He was ennobled after his death along with his brother Thomas Kinnemond [SSNE 2832] in 1650, the man with whom he is often confused and who was governor of Nyenmunde in Livonia. Patrick married Margareta Becker in her first marriage (her 2nd was to major general William Barclay [SSNE 1611], ennobled and introduced under nr.652). She was the daughter of the merchant Johan Becker of Stockholm and his wife Christina de Wijk. They had one daughter
Swedish Riksarkiv, P. Sondén, Militärachefer I svenska arméen och deras skrivelser; Swedish Krigsarkiv, Muster Roll 1626/1; 1628/7-15; 1629/5-10,12,14,16,18; 1630/23; 1631/12,15; C.O. Nordensvan, (ed.), Värmlands Regementes [Närkes och Värmlands Regementes] Historia: Andra Delen, Personal Historia (Stockholm, 1911), p.31 [gives date of death as 1650 during the siege of Prim]; Colonel Kinnemond is listed in Muster Roll 1635/1,2; 1636/19,20; 1638/24; G. Elgenstierna, Svenska Adelns Ättartavlor, vol. 4, pp.15 and 126, vol. 11, p.431 [gives date of death as 1645 at siege of Brünn]; H. Marryat, One Year in Sweden, including a visit to the isle of Gotland (London, 1862), p.491; Otto Donner, A brief sketch of the Scottish families in Finland and Sweden (Helsingfors, 1884), p.30; T. Fischer, The Scots in Sweden (Edinburgh, 1907), p.221. Thanks to Dr Bernd Warlich for the following reference to Kinnemond's commandant's role at Pirnau: Christian HECKEL, Historische Nachricht von dem, was nunmehro vor hundert Jahren nehmlich Anno 1639 in dem sogenanten 30jährigen Kriege der Stadt Pirna von denen feindlichen Schweden wiederfahren. Nebst dem, was sonst im Jahre 1739 in Kirchen-Sachen daselbst merckwürdiges vorgefallen (Pirna 1739), pp. 43ff, 58. (http://gdz.sub.uni-Goettingen.de) - [gives date of death as 1639 after shooting himself].
Service record
- SWEDEN, ALEXANDER LESLIE, NARKE OCH VARMLAND
- Arrived 1624-01-01, as ENSIGN
- Departed 1627-12-31, as LIEUTENANT
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY
- SWEDEN, JAMES RAMSAY
- Arrived 1628-01-01, as LIEUTENANT
- Departed 1638-12-31, as LT. COLONEL
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY
- SWEDEN, ANKLAM
- Arrived 1638-01-01, as COLONEL
- Capacity COMMANDANT, purpose MILITARY
- SWEDEN, PIRNA, SAXONY, SAXONIA
- Arrived 1639-05-01, as COLONEL and COMMANDANT
- Departed 1639-05-27, as COLONEL and COMMANDANT
- Capacity GOVERNOR, purpose MILITARY