GREVE, [SSNE 8124]
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Captain Greve or Green was an early English captain in Dutch service. He appears in the Accounts and Pay Lists of Holland in 1573 (Ferguson, p. 36). David Trim writes that he helped to transport Thomas Morgan's regiment from England but disappears from all record by the summer of 1573 (Trim, p. 432).
Sources:
J. Ferguson, Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in theservice of the United Netherlands, 1572-1697 (Edinburgh, 1899), p. 36.
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), p. 432.
This entry created by Mr. Jack Abernethy.
Service record
- LOW COUNTRIES, HOLLAND, ANGLO-DUTCH BRIGADE
- Arrived 1573-01-01, as CAPTAIN
- Departed 1573-12-31, as ?
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY