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Of Deubatel

We read promiscuously in all Historians of Dewbattle, Tupadel, Tubat, Dubatt, Druwatt
(As to Draubald, he was certainly another person). Yet after all this, his true name 
was not Dewbatel, but Mac-Doughall: being descended from a Scottish father 
in the Swedish service and a woman of Lifeland. The King Gustavus Adolphus
loved him extremely from the time he knew him in the capacity of a common
soldier, making him colonel of his own guards on the death of Teuffel and governor
of Russelheim. Being taken prisoner near Nurnberg, the imperial general
Walstein dismissed him without ransom and intrusted him to negotiate
an accomodation with Gustavus. Acquitting himself well in various commands
of importance, he was at length betrayed by Arnheim in Bohemia, but
Walstein released him generoulsly, and defrayed his ransom a second time
He than rose to be serjant major general unter the Duke de Weymar
but forgetting the obligations he had to his deceased master, deser=
ted the cause of Sweden at a period his assistances were chiefly wanted,
becoming a fatal, but we hope an uncommon proof that the brave 
man, and the man of honour, are not always to be predicated upon 
each other (Harte's History of Gustavus Adolphus)