BINGLY, GEORGE [SSNE 6525]

Surname

BINGLY, BINGLEY

First name

GEORGE

Title/rank

COLONEL

Nationality

IRISH

Region

ULSTER

Religion

CATHOLIC

Text source

Colonel George Bingly, a bastard son of John Bingly who was the teller of the Exchequer, had entered Swedish service with a force of 200-6000 (source dependent) Irishmen noted as "Ulster Kernish Rebells" who went to Sweden and served in Russia during Russia's Times of Troubles (1609-1613). They claimed to have left their homes because of religious persecution and the loss of their lands there. Bingly then joined Polish service

Uppsala University Library, E379d, MSS by A.Duncan, The Diplomatic Correspondence of Sir James Spens of Wormiston, p.4; PRO, SP95/1, f.177; Calendar of State Papers Ireland, 1611-1614, 479-480, Lord Chichesters Services, May 1614; M. Jansson, et al, eds, England and the North: The Russian Embassy of 1613-1614 (Philadelphia, 1994), p.63; 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.200.

Service record

SWEDEN, RUSSIA

Arrived 1610-01-01, as COLONEL

Departed 1616-12-31, as COLONEL

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY

POLAND-LITHUANIA,

Arrived 1617-01-01, as OFFICER

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY