KEITH, WILLIAM GILBERT [SSNE 5223]

Surname

KEITH, KEITZ, KYTH

First name

WILLIAM GILBERT

Title/rank

CAPTAIN

Nationality

SCOT

Text source

On 17th January 1621 Captain William Keith and Captain Peter Learmonth [SSNE 5222] received letters of recommendation and travel passes from King Sigismund III dated at Warsaw. They were to levy a regiment of 900 Scottish infantry from the community living in Poland-Lithuania. He rejoined Polish service in 1648, 13 years after the army had been disbanded following the treaty of Stuhmsdorf in 1635

A.F. Steuart, Papers Relating to the Scots in Poland 1576-1793, (Edinburgh, 1915), pp.xx-xxi; Scottish Historical Review, vol.iii (1906), pp.524-552;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.204, p.206, p.210.

Service record

POLAND, WARSAW

Arrived 1621-01-01, as CAPTAIN

Departed 1621-01-17, as CAPTAIN

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY