FALCONER, DAVID [SSNE 372]

Surname

FALCONER, FALCKNER

First name

DAVID

Title/rank

MAJOR

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

OFFICER

Text source

David Falconer was in Danish-Norwegian service. He then became a major at Gluckstadt in 1627. Thereafter Falconer was in Swedish service as a major of the Swedish Yellow Regiment garrisoned in Regensburg. This was besieged in 1634 by Imperial and Bavarian troops. Falconer himself was executed in Regensburg because he stabbed Major Buraeus, a fellow officer in Yellow Regiment. 

T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), II, p.112. (RA. Mil.rgsk. II b 16: Gluckstadt 1625-9 I, pp.1454-6); Peter Engerisser, Von Kronach nach Nördlingen. Der Dreißigjährige Krieg in Franken, Schwaben und der Oberpfalz 1631-1635 (Weißenstadt, 2004), p.283. Thanks to Dr Bernd Warlich for updating this entry.

Service record

DENMARK-NORWAY, GLUCKSTADT

Arrived 1627-09-01, as MAJOR

Departed 1627-11-30, as MAJOR

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY

SWEDEN, YELLOW BRIGADE, REGENSBURG

Arrived 1630-01-01, as MAJOR

Departed 1634-12-31, as MAJOR

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY