CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER [SSNE 8405]

Surname

CAMPBELL, CAMBEL, CAMMEL

First name

ALEXANDER

Title/rank

CAPTAIN

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

OFFICER

Text source

Alexander Campbell was a Scottish captain in Dutch service in the 1570s. He was commissioned by the Privy Council of Scotland on 8 June 1573 to raise 300 men for the Sweden, but likely transferred to Prince of Orange’s service, embarking by 1 August 1573. He appears in the pay-lists of Holland for 1573-1574. He was commissioned again on 23 September 1577 and reappears in the paylists for 1575-1577. He was still serving by 1579, when he appeared in a list of Scottish officers who took the States’ obligation in March. Campbell and his wife appear to have been killed by armed peasants in Flanders in February 1579. 

 

Sources:

Calendar of State Papers, Foreign, 1578-1579, p. 417.

Calendar of State Papers, Scotland, 1571-1574, p. 601.

J. Ferguson, Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in theservice of the United Netherlands, 1572-1697 (Edinburgh, 1899), pp. 36-37.

Nationaal Archief, Den Haag, 1.01.12, 12576.15.

Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 1569-1578, pp. 238. 638. 

This entry created by Mr Jack Abernethy.

 

Service record

THE LOW COUNTRIES, PRINCE OF ORANGE, THE SCOTS BRIGADE

Arrived 1573-06-08, as CAPTAIN

Departed -0001-11-30, as CAPTAIN

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY