MONRO, IAN [SSNE 520]

Surname

MONRO

First name

IAN

Title/rank

CAPTAIN

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

OFFICER

Text source

Ian Monro was a Scottish officer in the Danish-Norwegian army. He was a captain in Colonel Donald Mackay's [SSNE 93] regiment. He was in command of a company, billeted at Borsflet where Hausmann Hinrich Hannemann complained that it had 30 sentries who destroyed his fences. On 6 October 1628 Monro was given a passport for travelling with Sir Donald Mackay to Copenhagen, then England and finally back within five months

T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), II, p.132; National Archives of Scotland, GD 84/159, 14/4/1627, Ditlev Rantzau to Mackay, and 84/172, 6/10/1628.

Service record

DENMARK-NORWAY, MACKAY'S REGIMENT

Arrived 1628-01-01, as CAPTAIN

Departed 1628-10-04, as CAPTAIN

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY