RUTHVEN, ALEXANDER [SSNE 1169]
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Alexander Ruthven served King Sigismund III during wars between Sweden and Poland. He was noted by the Swedes as travelling in company with Henry Lyell from Copenhagen to Scotland in 1600 after which had taken 300 men into Zamoyski's army. He was killed at Wolmar in December 1601. A complaint from Colonel Alexander Ruthven's widow, Margaret Munro, in Edinburgh to the magistrates in Danzig survives from 1605.
Sources: Riksarkivets ämnessamlingar. Personhistoria
https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/A0070111_00009#?c=&m=&s=&cv=8&xywh=1728%2C10%2C4777%2C2755
Riksarkivets Ämbetsarkiv, Huvudarkivet FV a:31-32 Ang. Skottar I svensk tjänst, notes compiled by Hammerskjöld;
A.F. Steuart, Papers relating to the Scots in Poland, 1576-1793, (Edinburgh, 1915), p.xix; T. Fischer, The Scots in Eastern and Western Prussia (Edinburgh, 1903), pp.129-130; R. Frost, "Scottish soldiers, Poland-Lithuania and the Thirty Years' War" in S. Murdoch ed. Scotland and the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 (Brill, 2001), p.198.
Service record
- POLAND-LITHUANIA, DANZIG
- Arrived 1600-01-01, as COLONEL
- Departed 1605-04-06, as COLONEL
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY