CHAMBERS, JAMES [SSNE 6453]

Surname

CHAMBERS

First name

JAMES, JACOB

Title/rank

CAPTAIN OF HORSE

Nationality

SCOTTISH

Social status

NOBILITY

Text source

James Chambers was a baron from Britain. He served as a royal captain of horse. In 1673 his status as a nobleman was confirmed in Poland-Lithuania as a reward for his valour. His coat of arms displayed on his seal - recorded by Wittyg, (W. Wittyg, 'Nieznana szlachta polska i jej herby'), points to a Scottish origin.

B. Treliska, ed. Album armorum nobilium regni Poloniae XV-XVIII saec. (Lublin, 2001), p.1044.Thanks to Professor Waldemar Kowalski for this information. See also R. Frost, "Scottish soldiers, Poland-Lithuania and the Thirty Years' War" in S. Murdoch ed. Scotland and the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 (Brill, 2001), p.211. The Wittyg information was supplied by Peter Bajer.

Service record

POLAND-LITHUANIA,

Arrived 1673-01-01, as CAPTAIN

Departed 1673-12-31, as CAPTAIN

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY