GORDON, Alexander in the Swedish army, Colonel ¹

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  General Notes:

"1655 - Alexander. 1634, Col. in the Swedish army (Earls of Sutherland, 477-8). He may be the 'Gordon Lievetennant Colonell, since a Colonell to foote of Dutch under the Crown of Sweden ' who appears in a list of 'Scottish officers in chief' as having served the King of Sweden in 1632 (Robert Monro's Expedition, 1637, part i. sig. O 4). A similar list is given with the name of a 'Collonel Gordon' in the Spottiswoodc Misc., edited by James Maidment (n. 384). Son of John, who was the son of William (d. 1577, Aug. 6), Bishop of Aberdeen (Earls of Sutherland, 478), who was third son of Alexander, 3rd Earl of Huntly, 116"

from Gordons Under Arms ¹