I was recently reminded that, although I had done the standards of the Danish 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th Jyske cavalry regiments, I had not done the 4th, so here they are.
First raised 1670 as the 2nd Jyske Nationale Rytterregiment which was divided in 1675 into the 3rd and 4th Jyske Regiments.
Commanders: 1699 J Rantzau then R G Grabow 1708-1714
Served Holstein 1700 then in Dutch pay in the War of the Spanish Succession 1701-1713 and two squadrons strong:
Service:
1702 Siege and capture of Liège
1704 Battle of Blenheim as part of Rantzau's brigade on the right centre of the Allied line; the sieges of Trarbach and Saarburg
1706 Battle of Ramillies in Brockdorff's brigade on the left wing (the Danish cavalry especially distinguished itself in this battle); sieges of Antwerp, Ostend, Menin, Ath, Dendermonde and Oudenarde
1708 Battle of Oudenarde
1709 Siege of Tournai; battle of Malplaquet
1714 Returned to Denmark and disbanded
The mottoes on the company standards are:
IBLANT TORNE ROSEN GROER which means Amongst Thorns Roses Grow
VEL BEGIJNT ER HALV FULDENDT which means Well Begun Is Half Done
TROR VEL, RIDER HESTEN BORT which means something like I Think Well, The Horse Rides Away ?? (Someone with fluent Danish may be able to make sense of that one!)
And this was probably the uniform in the WSS:
