PEEBLES, GEORGE [SSNE 7432]

Surname

PEEBLES, VON PEBLIS, PEBLISS, POBLITZ, POLITZ

First name

GEORGE, GEORG

Title/rank

COLONEL

Nationality

SCOT

Text source

 

Georg Hans von Peblis [Pöblitz, Plebis], [ca. 1580 – 1650] Scottish colonel, the son of Wilhelm (William) Peblis - governor of Ernst Friedrich, margrave of Baden-Durlach. He had had been in Stuart service at the time of the marriage of Frederick V of the Palatinate and Elisabeth Stuart. In 1612 he became lieutenant-colonel and administrator of Hohenfels (Upper Palatinate). Under the command of Count Ernst of Mansfeld he took part in the Bohemian War and at the battle of White Mountain. After that war in 1621 he tried to defend Cham (Upper Palatinate) together with Andrew 7th Lord Gray against the ligistic troops of Maximilian I of Bavaria. Despite the promises of the Duke of Bavaria the English and Scottish soldiers were plundered, many of their women taken away and a part of the soldiers executed. Peblis thereafter led a regiment of the Palatinate together with Count Mansfeld in the Lower Palatinate. in 1623 he had been chosen as the military leader of a planned revolt against the Bavarian troops in the Lower Palatinate. Thereafter he first engaged in the service of Zurich (Switzerland), then in Danish service until 1626. Peblis was the executor of Count Ernst of Mansfeld, when the leader of the mercenaries died on 29 November 1626. Thereafter he joined the Swedish army, then he went again in the service of the Palatinate. Peblis was a member of the "Consilium Formatum" of the "Heilbronner Bund", the alliance of the Protestants under the direction of chancellor Axel Oxenstierna, confering at Frankfurt am Main. 

 

Sources:

 

Riksarkivet, Stockholm. Oxestiernasamlingen. &x letters, Carl Miranius to Axel Oxenstierna, 11/01/1633 - 0/02/1634. See also Rikskansleren Axel Oxenstiernas skrifter och Brevvaxling, first series, volume 8 (Stockholm, 1942), pp.345, 476-478, 516 - 518, 683. Volume 9 (Stockholm, 1946), pp.119, 463-466, 547, 548. Volume 10 (Stockholm, 1954), pp.441-442, 449, 577, 596, 607. Volumw XI/I (Stockholm, 1969), pp.31, 35, 264, 269, 579, 581.

Walter KRÜSSMANN, Ernst von Mansfeld (1580-1626). Grafensohn, Söldnerführer, Kriegsunternehmer gegen Habsburg im Dreißigjährigen Krieg. Historische Forschungen vol. 94. Berlin 2010, pp. 157, 208, 244, 267, 272, 285, 361, 406, 411, 421, 424, 547-549, 553, 574, 614, 620, 628-631;!!! Johannes KRETZSCHMAR, Der Heilbronner Bund, Luebeck 1920, vol. II, p. 335f; Stefan HELML, Die Oberpfalz im 30jährigen Krieg – der Deutschland und Europa in seinen Bann zog, Amberg 1990, p. 21, 30, 41, 51, 65. Anja RIECK, Frankfurt am Main unter schwedischer Besatzung 1631-1635. Reichsstadt-Repraesentationsort-Bündnisfestung. Frankfurt/M. 2005, p. 133; Leonhard Haas "Schwedens Politik gegenüber der Eidgenossenschaft während des Dreißigjährigen Krieges", in: Schweizer Beiträge zur Allgemeinen Geschichte, 9 (1951), pp. 95 sqq

 

Thanks to Dr Bernd Warlich for this biography.

Service record

STUART KINGDOMS, PALATINATE, UPPER PALATINATE, HOHENFELS

Arrived 1612-01-01, as LIEUTENANT COLONEL

Capacity OFFICER, ADMINISTRATOR, purpose MILITARY

PALATINATE, BOHEMIA, BOHEMIA, MANSFELD

Arrived 1620-01-01, as LIEUTENANT COLONEL

Departed 1625-12-31

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY

SWITZERLAND, ZURICH

Arrived 1625-01-01

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MLITARY

DENMARK-NORWAY, ARMY

Arrived 1626-01-01, as LIEUTENANT COLONEL

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY

SWEDEN, PALATINATE, SWITZERLAND

Arrived 1633-01-11

Departed 1634-02-28

Capacity AGENT, purpose DIPLOMACY

SWEDEN, ARMY

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY