Sir George Ogilvy of Banff’s Troop of Horse

Scots Royalist troop of horse, perhaps cuirassiers, engaged in the First Bishop’s war of 1639

• Raised
• May: Towie-Barclay Castle?
• May: Trot o’ Turriff
• May: Occupation of Aberdeen?

Ogilvy of Banff’s troop of horse may well have accompanied him to the unsuccessful attempt on Towie-Barclay Castle on the 10th of May 1639, where David Prat was killed, the first fatal casualty of the Civil Wars. Ogilvy of Banff’s troop, together with Gordon of Haddo’s troop, formed the Scots Royalist cavalry at the very first skirmish of the Civil Wars, the Trot o’ Turriff in May 1639. One of these troops were equipped with full cuirassier armour and bore ane hankerciffe upon a lance as a colour¹⁾.

Sir George Ogilvy of Banff (d. 1663) led the Scots Royalists at the attempt on Towie-Barclay Castle, Trot of Turriff and occupation of Aberdeen in May 1639. In 1642 he was created 1st Lord Banff

One troop only

Sir John Gordon of Haddo’s Troop of Horse

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