PORTEOUS, ROBERT GILBERT [SSNE 5787]

Surname

PORTEOUS, PORTIUSS, PORCYUS

First name

ROBERT GILBERT

Nationality

SCOT

Region

DALKEITH, MIDLOTHIAN

Text source

Robert Gilbert Porteous was born near Dalkeith and probably arrived in Poland before 1623. He obtained the royal privilege to trade in Hungarian wines from Sigismund III and became wealthy, donating a lot of money to the town of Krosno and its church. He converted to the Catholic faith. There is a street named after him. He is listed amongst the Scots and English in Krosno who subscribed to the subsidy for King Charles II in 1651. He paid 9000 florins. When he died Porteous left King John Casimir 10,000 zloties and an altar of pure gold

A.B. Pernal and R.P. Gasse, The 1651 Polish Subsidy to the exiled Charles II, Oxford Slavonic Papers, vol xxxii (Oxford, 1999), p.28; Z. Guldon and L. Stepkowski, Szkoci i Anglicy w Koronie w polowie XVII wieku, Kieleckie Studia Historyczne, ii (1977); S. Seliga and L. Koczy, Scotland and Poland a chapter of forgotten History, (Scotland, 1969), p.8;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.194-5.

Service record

POLAND-LITHUANIA, KROSNO

Arrived 1651-01-01

Capacity MERCHANT?, purpose MERCANTILE?