WEIER, ROBERT [SSNE 3756]
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Robert Weir served as a lieutenant with James Spens' regiment in 1624. He later became a lieutenant in Melker Wurmbrandt's regiment in Riga in 1625. It was possibly this man Alexander Leslie mentioned as 'Captaine Weir' a courier of information to Marquis Hamilton in August 1631. Whether so or not, he transferred again, this time as a captain to Thomas Karr's recruited infantry regiment in 1633, the same year that he became a major. Monro notes him as a lieutenant colonel in 1632 (if it is the same man) and that he was later killed in Saxony.
Swedish Krigsarkiv, Muster Roll, 1624/8; 1625/6; 1626/4-6,8,9; 1633/25,26; R. Monro, His Expedition with the worthy Scots regiment called Mackeyes (2 vols., London, 1632), II, List of the Scottish Officers in Chief; Sir William Fraser,, ed., The Melvilles Earls of Melville and the Leslies Earls of Leven (3 vols., Edinburgh, 1890), II, 80-81. Alexander Leslie to Marquis Hamilton, 21 August 1631.
Service record
- SWEDEN, JAMES SPENS
- Arrived 1624-01-01, as LIEUTENANT
- Departed 1624-12-31, as LIEUTENANT
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY
- SWEDEN, MELKER WURMBRANDT, RIGA, HAMILTON ARMY (?)
- Arrived 1625-01-01, as LIEUTENANT
- Departed 1632-12-31, as LIEUTENANT
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY
- SWEDEN, THOMAS KARR, RIGA
- Arrived 1633-01-01, as CAPTAIN
- Departed 1633-12-31, as LIEUTENANT COLONEL
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY