HILL, JOHN [SSNE 6523]

Surname

HILL

First name

JOHN

Text source

Captain John Hill "Capitanaeus Scotores militum” served first in the garrison in Riga with a Scottish regiment.  He was later sent as part of King Karl IX's mercenaries to Russia. During Russian hostilities with Poland-Lithuania he was captured and then entered King Sigismund III Vasa's service when the Polish army was beseiging Smolensk.

Sources:

Haralds Biezais (ed.) Das Kirkenbuch Der St Jakobskirche in Riga, 1582-1621; 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.199.

 

With thanks to Dr Kelsey Jackson Williams for the Riga reference.

Service record

SWEDEN, RIGA

Departed 0000-01-01

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY

SWEDEN, RUSSIA

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY

SWEDEN AND RUSSIA, ARMY

Departed 1610-12-31, as CAPTAIN

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY

POLAND-LITHUANIA, SMOLENSK

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY