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Census • Person • Francis Beme

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unknown	1530s-1540s	unknown

In 1539 this Baltic pirate was cruising off Antwerp, waiting to waylay English merchant vessels.

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The Pirates' Who's Who: (P. Gosse, 1924)	In 1539 this Baltic pirate was cruising off Antwerp, waiting to waylay English merchant vessels.

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	Francis Beme	unknown	1530		1549	unknown

Kellwanton	unknown	1520	1531	unknown
A notorious pirate in the sixteenth century. Was captured in the Isle of Man in 1531.
Captain Nicholas Barbe	unknown	1520	1532	unknown
Master of a Breton ship, the Mychell, of St. Malo, owned by Hayman Gillard. Captured by an Englis...
Giafer	unknown	1536	1536	unknown

De Melton	unknown	1520	1539	unknown
A well-known pirate in the sixteenth century. Was with Kellwanton when he was captured in the Isl...
Jean Ango	1480	1530	1539	1551
a French ship-owner who provided ships to Francis I for exploration of the globe. A native of Die...
Bowen	unknown	1530	1539	unknown
A Bristol man. In 1537, when the Breton pirates were becoming very daring along the south coast o...
Peter Dromyowe	unknown	1530	1539	unknown
A Breton pirate. One of the crew of Captain du Laerquerac, who in 1537 took several English ships...
Captain John Du Laerquerac	unknown	1530	1539	unknown
This Breton pirate was captured in 1537 by a Bristol seaman called John Wynter. Du Laerquerac, wi...
Captain William Phelipp	unknown	1530	1539	unknown
In 1533 a Portuguese merchant, Peter Alves, engaged Phelipp to pilot his ship, the Santa Maria De...
Juan Canete	unknown	1540	1540	unknown

Sayyida al Hurra	1485	1510	1542	unknown
Allied with the Turkish corsair Barbaros of Algiers. al Hurra controlled the western Mediterranea...
Robert Borough	unknown	1543	1543	unknown
was born in Devonshire, received a patent for the robbery of the French courts.
Hayreddin Barbarossa	1478	1504	1545	1546
an Ottoman admiral of the fleet who was born in the island of Midilli (Lesbos) and died in Consta...
Michael James	unknown	1545	1545	unknown

Hans Van Meghlyn	unknown	1530	1549	unknown
A pirate of Antwerp, who owned a vessel of forty-five tons, painted black with pitch, and carried...
James Alday	1516	1540	1549	1576 ca
a 16th-century English navigator, explorer and privateer. He participated in raids against the Sp...
William Cooke	unknown	1540	1549	unknown

Kristoffer Trondson	1500 ca	1535	1559	1565
a squire, admiral, feudal overlord in Norway and Denmark, privateer captain and pirate. Kristoffe...
Wang Zhi	unknown	1540	1559	unknown
a Chinese pirate and trader of the 16th century, one of the chief named and known figures among t...
Aisa	unknown	1540	1560s 9	unknown
A famous Mediterranean pirate, and one of Dragut's admirals (Aisa was Drugat's nephew) in the six...
Turgut Reis	1485	1500	1565	1565, Jun 23
an Ottoman Greek Admiral and privateer who also served as Bey of Algiers; Beylerbey of the Medite...
Salih Reis	1488 ca	1529	1568	1568
a Turkish privateer and Ottoman admiral. In 1529, he took part in the Turkish-Spanish battle near...
Takanobu Matsura	1529	1540	1569	1599, Apr 1
a 16th-century Japanese samurai and 25th hereditary lord of the Matsura clan of Hirado. He was on...
Giovanni Dionigi	1519	1536	1587	1587, Jun 21
an Italian born corsair (privateer) who later became an Ottoman admiral (Reis), Bey of the Regenc...
Lady Mary Killigrew [3]	1525 ca	1540	1587	1587 ca
Mary was the daughter of a former Suffolk pirate. Mary's husband Sir Henry Killigrew, a former pi...