BAUD, WILLIAM [SSNE 8130]
Text source
Captain William Baud was an English officer in the service of Holland in the 1570s. He appears in the pay lists of Holland in 1573 (Ferguson, p. 36). David Trim writes that his company mustered at Delft in 1575 and then disappears (Trim, p. 406).
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. 406.
This entry created by Mr Jack Abernethy.
Service record
- LOW COUNTRIES, HOLLAND, ANGLO-DUTCH BRIGADE, THOMAS MORGAN
- Arrived 1573-06-01, as CAPTAIN
- Departed 1575-09-30, as ?
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY