MONEYPENNY, PATRICK [SSNE 3107]

Surname

MONEYPENNY, MONEPENNY, MONEPENNE, MONNIPENNY, MONNEPENNE, MONIPENNY

First name

PATRICK, PETER

Title/rank

CAPTAIN

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

OFFICER

Text source

Patrick Monipenny was a Scottish officer in Swedish service from 1644-58. Apparently he migrated from Scotland to Sweden at the age of 12, being brought over by his uncle, General James Spens [SSNE 1642]. As Spens died in 1632 it remains to be discovered what Monipenny did in the intervening years. He became a captain in Kronoberg's regiment in 1644 and the Kammarkollegium refers to him as Captain on 16 December 1645. He then joined colonel Johan Gordon's [SSNE 2515] Närke and Värmland's regiment in 1647-58. Patrick married Margareta Lood, the daughter of Per Marten Lood. In 1645 he and his brother William asked Hugh Hamilton to pay for the funeral of their cousin, Cecelia Spens. He died on 20 April 1699 at the age of 83, though his request for his son Wilhelm [SSNE 6478] to get a company in the Kronoberg Regiment was being processed in May of the same year.

Patrick had a brother called William, possibly [SSNE 6975]?

Sources: Riksarkivets ämnessamlingar. Personhistoria

https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/A0069906_00079#?c=&m=&s=&cv=78&xywh=3711%2C418%2C2191%2C1264

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Stockholm Krigsarkivet, Muster Roll, 1644/7; 1645/9; 1647/6; 1648/17; 1649/3,17; 1650/4; 1651/3; 1652/3,5; 1653/2; 1654/3; 1655/3; 1656/5; 1657/2; 1658/4; Palmskiöldiska Samlingen, vol. 226, p.333; Several letters can be found in 'Krigskollegium Kancelliet; Adressatregistratur till Krigskollegiets Registratur 1631-1654' including "fullmakt att vara kapt över det komp Södermanlands knektar som Valentin Somaringk härtill haft och kommenderat här 29/7/1646"; "fullmakt att vara kapt under col Johan Gordons reg Närke och Värmlands knektar som Måns Silversvärd härtill haft och kommenderat har 27/5/1648"; See also Kammarkollegium, card no. 114; Swedish Riksarkiv, Föreckning över Landshövdingens i Kronobergs Län Skrivelser till Kung. Maj:t. 1637-1840 - Patrick Monepenne; F. Rudelius, 'Kalmar Regementes Personhistoria 1623-1927 (2 vols., Norköping, 1952) I, p.30.

Service record

SWEDEN, KRONOBERG

Arrived 1644-01-01, as CAPTAIN

Departed 1648-05-26, as CAPTAIN

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY

SWEDEN, GORDON'S NARKE OCH VARMLAND

Arrived 1648-05-27, as CAPTAIN

Departed 1658-12-31, as CAPTAIN

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY