MONRO, ANDREW [SSNE 473]

Surname

MONRO

First name

ANDREW

Title/rank

LIEUTENANT

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

OFFICER

Text source

Andrew Monro was from Ross-shire and a cousin of the famous Colonel Robert Monro [SSNE 94]. Andrew was a Scottish officer in Danish-Norwegian service. He was a lieutenant in Colonel Donald Mackay's [SSNE 93] regiment by autumn 1628. However, he was killed in a duel in the German island of Fehmarn with a certain Rantzau in the winter of 1628-9.

T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), II, p.127 ; J. Mackay, 'Mackay's Regiment' in Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, VIII, 1879, p. 187. R. Monro, His Expedition with a worthy Scots Regiment called Mac-Keyes (2. vols., London, 1637), I, pp. 82-4; Clan Munro Association, Clan Munro Magazine, vi (1959-60), p. 20; J. Mackay, An Old Scots Brigade (Edinburgh, 1885), pp. 81, 206.

This record was kindly updated by Dr Thomas Brochard

Service record

DENMARK-NORWAY, MACKAY'S REGIMENT

Arrived 1628-01-01, as LIEUTENANT

Departed 1628-10-04, as LIEUTENANT

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY