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David Middleton unknown1601
 
1615unknown

Marcantonio Calefati1545, May 11565
 
16021602, Nov 10
 On 12 March 1568, after he had already participated in the War of Malta (1565) and that of Hungar...
Jan de Bouffunknown1602
 
 
1602unknown
 a Dutch renegade privateer who, during the Dutch War of Independence, entered Habsburg service an...
Andries Dirksenunknown1602
 
 
1602unknown
 privateer in the service of Spain. He operated in 1602 from the port of Duinkerken. In August 160...
Grace O'Malley15301550
 
16031603
 chieftain of the Ó Máille clan in the west of Ireland, following in the footsteps of her father...
Sir Michael Geare1565 ca1584
 
1603unknown
 a 16th-century English sailor, privateer and merchant. One of the many Sea Dogs who plagued the S...
Sir James Lancaster15541591
 
16031618
 a prominent Elizabethan trader and privateer, active in India during the late 16th century. In 15...
Brother Ascanio Cambianounknown1602
 
 
1604unknown
 Knight of Malta. Captain General of Galleys
George Cliffordunknown1558
 
1605unknown
 an English peer, naval commander and courtier of Queen Elizabeth I. He helped to prepare an exped...
Jacques Germainunknown1606
 
 
1606unknown
 Knight of St. Stephan
Agostino Faenzounknown1607
 
 
1607unknown
 Knight of St. Stephen
James Harrisunknown1608
 
 
1608unknown
 One of Roberts's crew.
Murat Reis the Elder15341560
 
1608/381608/9/38
 an Albanian privateer and admiral of the Ottoman Navy. He is regarded as one of the most importan...
John Oxenham15361570
 
16091580
 Elizabethan Sea Dog and associate of Sir Francis Drake during the early years of the Anglo-Spanis...
Jan Claasenunknown1590
 
1609unknown
 Dutch privateer in the service of Spain in 1599. He sailed from the port of Duinkerken. He attack...
Adriaan Dirksenunknown1590
 
1609unknown
 Dirksen was vice-admiral and member of the board of admirals of Duinkerken in 1597. In May 1599 h...
Amyas Prestonunknown1590
 
16091609
 an English privateer of the Elizabethan period. Prestin came from Cricket St Thomas in Somerset. ...
Elizabeth Shirland15771590
 
1609unknown
 she was born around 1577 in Devonshire, England. Elizabeth and some of her family joined a group ...
Anthony Shirley15651590
 
16091637
 an English traveller, whose imprisonment in 1603 by King James I caused the English House of Comm...
Cornelius Gollunknown1598
 
1609unknown
 
Mahieu Jacobsenunknown1599
 
1609unknown
 Privateer in the service of Spain at the end of the 16th and at the beginning of the 17th century...
Nicholas Alvelunknown1600
 
1609unknown
 an English pirate active in the Ionian Sea during the early 17th century. There is very little ad...
Laurens Cortsenunknown1600
 
1609unknown
 Privateer active in 1601 from the port of Duinkerken. In this year he was captured and he and his...
The Lord of Wackeneunknown1600
 
1609unknown
 The lord of Wackene, Cathen and Capelle (Anton) was born in the house of Burgundy. He was a priva...
Frans Pleiteunknown1600
 
1609unknown
 Privateer sailing from Duinkerken. He had a letter of marque from Spain. In August 1600 he sailed...
Frans Willemsenunknown1600
 
1609unknown
 Privateer sailing from Duinkerken. He had a letter of marque from Spain. In August 1600 he sailed...
William Baugheunknown1609
 
 
16091610 ca
 operated off the coast of Ireland. ...... English pirate, worked around Ireland.
Peter Bonitonunknown1609
 
 
16091615 ca
 Executed in France ...... English pirate. He served in the Caribbean and challenged on everyo...
George Somers1554, Apr1570
 
16101610
 an English naval hero, knighted for his achievements and the Admiral of the Virginia Company. He ...
Peter Loveunknown1590
 
16101610
 an English pirate, said to have been born in Lewes, Sussex. He was the captain of the Priam, and ...
Sir Francis Verney15841608
 
 
16101615, Sep 6
 an English adventurer, soldier of fortune, and pirate. A nobleman by birth, he left England after...
William Hughsunknown1611
 
 
1611unknown
 
Toby Glanvilleunknown1600
 
1613unknown
 Captured in 1613, committed suicide
Michael Duppaunknown1613
 
 
1613unknown
 pirate, plundering ships near Mamora, Morocco. n
William Clark [1]unknown1614
 
 
1614unknown
 Associated with James Gentleman
James Gentlemanunknown1614
 
 
1614unknown
 
Thomas Franckeunknown1608
 
1615unknown
 
Sir Henry Mainwaring15871610
 
16161653
 an English lawyer, soldier, author, seaman and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 16...
Richard Bishop1550 ca1561
 
16171617 ca
 Pirate of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. ..... English pirate. He served in the Mediterra...
William Parkerunknown1587
 
16171617
 an English captain and privateer, and also Mayor of Plymouth. He was born near Plymouth and wa...
Christopher Newport 15611588
 
16171617
 an English seaman and privateer. He is best known as the captain of the Susan Constant, th...
Sir Walter Raleigh1554 ca1569
 
16181618, Oct 29
 an English landed gentleman, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer. He i...
John Ward [1]1552/531590
 
16191622
 a notorious English pirate around the turn of the 17th century who later became a Barbary Corsair...
Captain Simon Danziker1579 ca1600
 
16191611
 a 17th-century Dutch privateer and corsair. Danseker and the English pirate John Ward were the tw...
Ivan Dirkie De Veenboerunknown1600
 
16191620, Oct 10
  a 17th-century Dutch corsair. A privateer during the Eighty Years' War, he later turned to pirac...
Ward [2]unknown1600
 
1619unknown
 One of the first English pirates to establish himself on the Barbary coast in North Africa. By th...
Peter Easton [1]15701602
 
16191619
 a pirate in the early 17th century who operated along the Newfoundland coastline between Harbour ...
Giulio Barbolani Dei Conti De Montautounknown1610
 
16191619 ca
 Knight of Saint Stephen ..... Probably Italian pirate, known as the Knights of St. Stephen. He al...
Captain Bishop [1]unknown1610
 
1619[2]
 An Irishman. Chief mate to the pirate Captain Cobham.
Bishop [2]unknown1610
 
1619[1]
 In 1613, Bishop and a few other English seamen set up as pirates at Marmora on the Barbary Coast.
Cornelis Danielsenunknown1610
 
1619unknown
 Daniëlsen was a Dutch privateer who was active in the 17th century. On 31 May of 1619 he attacke...
Jenningsunknown1610
 
1619unknown
 A Welshman who in 1613 was settled on the Barbary coast with some thirty other British pirates.
Jan Janszoon15701600
 
16291641 ca
 one of the most succesful corsairs of the Mediterranean sea. Like so many Dutch pirates Jan, of t...
Li Danunknown1600
 
16291625
 a prominent early 17th century Chinese merchant originally from Quanzhou in Fujian province. Li o...
Piet Hein1577, Nov 251607
 
16291629, Jun 18
 a Dutch admiral and privateer for the Dutch Republic during the Eighty Years' War between the Uni...
Henry Chandlerunknown1610
 
1629unknown
 Born in Devonshire, his father kept a chandler's shop in Southwark. An English renegado at Algier...
Jan Jacobsen1588/891610
 
16291622
 a Flemish naval commander and Dunkirker during the Eighty Years' War. He became a posthumous hero...
Jacob Willekens1564/711590
 
16391633/1649
 a Dutch admiral on a fleet to the Dutch Indies, and a herring seller, who went to sea again at th...
Daniel Elfrithunknown1607
 
16411641
 a 17th-century English privateer, colonist and slave trader. In the service of the Earl of Warwic...
Hendrik Brouwer15811606
 
16431643, Aug 7
 a Dutch explorer, admiral, and colonial administrator both in Japan and the Dutch East Indies. He...
Catalina de Erausounknown1585
 
1650unknown
 a one-time nun who subsequently travelled around Spain and Spanish America, mostly under male ide...
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