LYALL, DAVID [SSNE 7567]

Surname

LYALL, LYELL, LEYEL, LEYELL, LEIJEL

First name

DAVID

Religion

CATHOLIC CONVERT [FROM LUTHERAN]

Text source

David Leyel was one of the few 'Danes' to convert from Lutheranism to Catholicism in the seventeenth century. He became private secretary to Bernadino Rebolledo, Spanish Ambassador to Copenhagen in the 1650s.

Steve Murdoch, Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, Leiden, 2006), p.97.

Service record

DENMARK-NORWAY [for SPAIN], COPENHAGEN

Arrived 1650-01-01

Capacity DIPLOMATIC SECRETARY, purpose DIPLOMACY