KNOWLES, ROBERT [SSNE 8430]

Surname

KNOWLES, KNOLLIS, KNOLLES

First name

ROBERT

Title/rank

CAPTAIN, SIR

Nationality

ENGLISH

Social status

OFFICER

Text source

Sir Robert Knowles was an English officer in the Thirty Years' War. He served as a captain under Horace Vere in the Palatinate in 1622 and later as captain under the Earl of Essex in the Anglo-Dutch Brigade in 1624. 

 

Sources: 

TNA SP81/27, f. 252, List of Troops under Vere in Lower Palatinate, [Undated][1622].

TNA SP81/29, f. 349, List of English captains late in the Palatinate, [Undated] [1623].

TNA SP63/267, f. 18, List of Captains to have the command of the companies to be now levied for the Army, Feb. 1625.

NL-HaNA, Staten-Generaal, 1.01.02, inv.nr. 8048, Staten van Oorlog, 1625. 

 

This entry created by Mr Jack Abernethy.

Service record

PALATINATE, STUART KINGDOMS, ANGLO-DUTCH BRIGADE, VERE'S

Arrived 1622-01-01, as CAPTAIN

Departed 1623-12-31, as CAPTAIN

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY