RAMZ, ? [SSNE 6470]

Surname

RAMZ, RAMZA, RAMSAY

First name

?

Title/rank

MAJOR

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

NOBILITY

Text source

A major Ramsay was ennobled in Poland-Lithuania as a reward for valour in 1676

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 MAJOR

Departed 1676-12-31, as MAJOR

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY