HUSSEY, ROGER [SSNE 8461]

Surname
HUSSEY
First name
ROGER
Title/rank
CAPTAIN
Nationality
ENGLISH
Social status
OFFICER

Text source

Roger Hussey was an English soldier and officer in the 1570s and 1580s. His 'first entrance into the warres' was a gentleman volunteer in the company of Sir Robert Dunstable during the rebellion of the Northern Earls in 1569 and in the Marian Civil Wars immediately following. He went on to serve as a sergeant and ensign under Captain Robert West in Flushing in 1573, under the 1st Earl of Essex in Ireland in 1575, under Sir Edward Stanley in Henry of Navarres guard in 1577, under Sir Arthur Grey in Ireland between 1580 and 1582, under Captain Edward Abarrow in the Dutch army in 1586, as a captain in Sir James Hale's expedition to Portugal in 1589, and finally in the Earl of Essex's expedition to Normandy in 1591. 

 

Sources:

The British Library, Lansdowne MS 1218, f. 126. 

David J.B. Trim, “Fighting ‘Jacob’s Wars.’ The Employment of English and Welsh Mercenaries in the European Wars of Religion: France and the Netherlands, 1562-1610,” (PhD Thesis, London, 2002), pp. 471, 508.

 

This entry created by Mr Jack Abernethy. 

Service record

ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, LOW COUNTRIES, ENGLAND, FRANCE, PORTUGAL, IRELAND
Arrived 1569-01-01, as VOLUNTEER
Departed 1591-12-31, as CAPTAIN
Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY