MONCRIEFF, WILLIAM [SSNE 776]
- Surname
- MONCRIEFF, MUNKRIJ, MAGKRYFF
- First name
- WILLIAM, WILLEM
- Title/rank
- BURGESS, CAPTAIN OF HORSE
- Nationality
- SCOT
- Social status
- BURGESS
Text source
William Moncrieff was a Scottish cavalry captain in Swedish service. He had raised a cavalry contingent of around 300 men for King Johan III of Sweden in 1573 and served alongside the army of his kinsman, Archibald Ruthven [SSNE 5514] during the war in Estonia. He appears to have survived the debacle at Wesenberg and served as a burgess of Marstrand in 1588 and 1599.
There is some confusion about William Moncrieff. After Wesenberg, a Captain William Moncrieff appears in the regiment of Colonel William Stewart in Danzig. This Moncrieff then transferred with Stewart to the Scots-Dutch Brigade in the Low Countries in 1578, appearing in pay-lists to 1581. James Ferguson writes that Moncrieff was killed at Antwerp in 1585 but perhaps he returned to the Baltic.
Sources:
G. Arteus, Till Militärstatens Förhistoria: Krig, professionalisering och social förändring under Vasasönernas regering (Stockholm, 1986), pp.176 and 185.
Peter Paul Bajer, Scots in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th-18th Centuries (Leiden, 2012), p. 481.
J.Berg and B.Lagercrantz, Scots in Sweden, (Stockholm, 1962).
James Dow, Ruthven's Army in Sweden and Esthonia (Stockholm, 1965), pp. 12-13.
James Ferguson, Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the service of the United Netherlands, 1572-1697 (Edinburgh, 1899), pp. 46-47.
HaNA, 1.01.02, 12756.15.
This entry updated by Dr Jack Abernethy.
Service record
- DANZIG, STEWART'S DANZIG REGIMENT
- Arrived 1577-01-01, as CAPTAIN
- Departed 1577-12-31, as CAPTAIN
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY
- THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, THE SCOTS BRIGADE
- Arrived 1578-01-01, as CAPTAIN
- Departed 1585-12-31, as CAPTAIN
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY
- SWEDEN, MARSTRAND
- Arrived 1588-01-01
- Departed 1588-12-31
- Capacity BURGESS, purpose CIVIC
- Arrived 1599-01-01
- Departed 1599-12-31
- Capacity BURGESS, purpose CIVIC