MIRISSON, ALEXANDER [SSNE 6464]

Surname
MIRISSON, MURISSON, MORRISON?
First name
ALEXANDER
Title/rank
CAPTAIN
Nationality
SCOT
Social status
NOBILITY

Text source

Alexander Murisson was a captain whose status as nobleman was confirmed in Poland-Lithuania in 1676 as a reward for valour

B. Treliska, ed. Album armorum nobilium regni Poloniae XV-XVIII saec. (Lublin, 2001), p.1244. 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.

Service record

POLAND-LITHUANIA,
Arrived 1676-01-01, as CAPTAIN
Departed 1676-12-31, as CAPTAIN
Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY