PITSCOTTIE, COLINE [SSNE 3265]

Surname

PITSCOTTIE, PERTSCOTTE, PERTSCOT

First name

COLINE, COLIN, COLIJN, KALLIN

Title/rank

LIEUTENANT

Nationality

SCOT

Region

FIFE

Social status

OFFICER

Text source

Colin (or Coline) Pitscottie served as an ensign with Otto von Scheiding's Smaland regiment in 1626. He transferred to Alexander Leslie's Narke och Varmland regiment later that year and became a lieutenant by 1627, serving in Sweden until at least 1631. The editor of Sydnam Poyntz notes that a Scot captured ar Nördlingen by the Imperialists and called by Poyntz 'Captain Fiscots' may have been a Lindsay of Pitscottie. It may equally have been this man, though this is speculation.

 

Colin Pittscottie would later serve alongside Alexander Leslie, with distinction, at the Battle of Marston Moor in England in 1644.

 

Swedish Krigsarkiv, Muster Roll, 1626/1,8,10; 1627/12; 1629/3; 1630/34,35,38; 1631/22-25; F. Rudelius, Kalmar Regementes Personhistoria 1623-1927 (2 vols., Norrköping, 1952) I, p.49; C.O. Nordensvan, (ed.), Värmlands Regementes [Närkes och Värmlands Regementes] Historia: Andra Delen, Personal Historia (Stockholm, 1911), p.33; A list of the Several Regiments and Chief Officers of the Scottish Army quartered neer Newcastle (London 1644); A.T.S. Goodrick (ed.), The Relation of Syndam Poyntz, 1624-1636 (London, 1908), p.111, Ed. Furgol, A Regimental History of the Covenanting Armies, 1639-1641 (Edinburgh, 1990), 33, 85, 168-170, 261-262, 345-347; Steve Murdoch and Alexia Grosjean, Alexander Leslie and the Scottish Generals of the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 (London, 2014), pp.37 and 132.

English Civil War

Service record

SWEDEN, SMALAND

Arrived 1626-01-01, as ENSIGN

Departed 1626-12-31, as ENSIGN

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY

SWEDEN, ALEXANDER LESLIE, NARKE OCH VARMLAND

Arrived 1627-01-01, as ENSIGN

Departed 1632-12-31, as LIEUTENANT

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY

STUART KINGDOMS, ARMY OF THE SOLEMN LEAGUE, MARSTON MOOR

Arrived 1644-01-20

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY