MEETKERKE, ADOLPH [SSNE 8439]

Surname

MEETKERKE, MEETKERKEN, MEETKERCKE, VAN MEETKERKE

First name

ADOLPH

Title/rank

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL

Nationality

ANGLO-DUTCH

Social status

OFFICER

Text source

Adolph Meetkerke was an Anglo-Dutch officer in the Anglo-Dutch Brigade. His father, Adolphus van Meetkerke [SSNE 8440], was a Flemish diplomat and noble who had fled to England in the late 1580s after a coup in favor of the Earl of Leicester. Adolph Meetkerke (junior) served as a captain at least as early as 1598 and was promoted to sergeant-major in 1602 under Sir Horace Vere [SSNE 8435]. He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1606 and served in this capacity during the 1614 expedition to Juliers-Cleves. He served until at least 1620. Meetkerke had three brothers who also served in the Dutch army: Nicolaas (killed at Deventer, 1591), Anthony (killed at Zutphen, 1586), and Baldwin (killed at Deventer, 1591). 

 

Sources: 

Burke, Bernard and Burke, Peter Ashworth, A genealogical and heraldic history of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland (London, 1894), p. 1373.

Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Staten-Generaal, nummer toegang 1.01.02, inventarisnummer 8044: Staten van Oorlog, 1608.

Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Staten-Generaal, nummer toegang 1.01.02, inventarisnummer 8297: Staten van Oorlog, 1609.

Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Staten-Generaal, nummer toegang 1.01.02, inventarisnummer 8047: Staten van Oorlog, 1610.

Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Staten-Generaal, nummer toegang 1.01.02, inventarisnummer 8045: Staten van Oorlog, 1613. 

Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Raad van State, nummer toegang 1.01.19, inventarisnummer 1242: Staten van Oorlog, 1617.

Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, Raad van State, nummer toegang 1.01.19, inventarisnummer 1244; Staten van Oorlog, 1620.

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Trim, David, '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, King's College, 2002), pp. 385-386.

 

This entry created by Mr Jack Abernethy.

Service record

THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, ANGLO-DUTCH BRIGADE

Arrived 1598-01-01, as CAPTAIN

Departed 1620-12-31, as CAPTAIN

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY