TRAIL, ANDREW [SSNE 8446]

Surname

TRAIL, TRAILL, TREIL

First name

ANDREW

Title/rank

COLONEL

Nationality

SCOT

Region

BLEBO, FIFE

Social status

OFFICER

Text source

Andrew Trail first appears in Dutch service between 1573-1574 and was commissioned on 26 October 1577 to raise a company of Scots by the Privy Council of Scotland. He was financed in 1579 by Alexander Segaitt, a prominent Scottish merchant in Veere. In 1580 he was promoted to colonel, along with Edward Preston, under whom the Scottish companies were divided into two regiments. By 11 October 1581 he was stationed in Menin and wrote to the Prince of Orange about the preparations of the Spanish at Tournai. It is possible he died in Menin in 1583. 

 

Sources: 

Briefwisseling van Willem van Oranje: http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/wvo

        Letters: 8924, 7422.

J. Ferguson, Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the service of the United Netherlands,1572-1697 (Edinburgh, 1899), pp. 36-36.

Nationaal Archief, Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Staten-Generaal, nummer toegang 1.01.02, inventarisnummer 12576.15.

Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 1569-1578, p. 737.

Ten Raa, F.J.G, and de Bas, F., Het Staatsche Leger, 1568-1795, I (Breda), p. 265.

 

This entry created by Mr Jack Abernethy.

 

 

Service record

LOW COUNTRIES, HOLLAND, THE SCOTS BRIGADE

Arrived 1573-01-01, as CAPTAIN

Departed 1583-01-31, as COLONEL

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY