GORDON, JAN JAKUB [SSNE 6543]

Surname

GORDON

First name

JAN JAKUB, JOHN JAMES

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

NOBILITY

Text source

Jan Jakub Gordon had fought in the Polish-Lithuanian army as a hussar on the Vienna campaign. In 1689 he became a Polish nobleman

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 1689-01-01

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY