STUART, WILLIAM [SSNE 3638]

Surname: STUART, STEWART, STYFVERT
First name: WILLIAM
Title/rank: LIEUTENANT-COLONEL
Nationality: SCOT
Social status: OFFICER

Text source

William Stewart listed as an ensign in David Drummond's [SSNE 2396] regiment in 1627 and is probably the same as William Stewart listed as a reformed lieutenant in James Ramsay's [SSNE 3315] regiment in 1629-31. This is probably the same as the William Stuart who is lieutenant colonel and chief of an infantry squadron in 1635, and then a cavalry squadron in Stettin that year. Stuart's Regiment of Horse consisting of 200 men formed part of the reserve of the 1st line at the Battle of Wittstock in September 1636 and it was most probably this man's regiment. Stewart went on to serve under Alexander Leslie in the British Civil Wars

Sources: R. Monro, His Expedition with the worthy Scots regiment called Mackeyes (2 vols., London, 1632), II, List of the Scottish Officers in Chief; Swedish Krigsarkiv, Muster Roll, 1627/12 1629/6,7,9,10; 1630/23; 1631/12,15; Swedish Riksarkiv, P. Sondén, Militära chefer i svenska arméen och deras skrivelser; T. Fischer, The Scots in Sweden, (Edinburgh, 1907), p.220; A list of the Several Regiments and Chief Officers of the Scottish Army quartered neer Newcastle (London 1644); Ed. Furgol, A Regimental History of the Covenanting Armies, 1639-1651 (Edinburgh, 1990),143.

Bishops Wars; English Civil War; British Civil Wars

Service record

SWEDEN, DAVID DRUMMOND: Arrived 1627-01-01, as ENSIGN; Departed 1627-12-31, as ENSIGN; Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY
SWEDEN, JAMES RAMSAY: Arrived 1629-01-01, as REF. LIEUTENANT; Departed 1631-12-31, as REF. LIEUTENANT; Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY
SWEDEN, WILLIAM STUART'S INFANTRY SQUADRON: Arrived 1635-01-01, as LIEUTENANT-COLONEL; Departed 1635-12-31, as LIEUTENANT-COLONEL; Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY
SWEDEN, CAVALRY SQUADRON, STETTIN (Szczecin): Arrived 1635-01-01, as LIEUTENANT-COLONEL; Departed 1636-12-31, as LIEUTENANT-COLONEL; Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY