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a Dutch-born pirate. Hendrick's last name, Lucifer, referred to a lighting stick, not to the fallen angel Lucifer, and was most likely used as a nickname due to his use of fire and smoke to surprise enemies. Hendrick captured 1.2 million guilders from a Honduran treasure fleet, but was mortally wounded in the process.
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  • 1628, takes 1.2 million guilders from an unknown Spanish treasure ship off Cuba
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Hendrick Jacobszoon Lucifer15831627
 
16271627

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
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Jan Jacobsen1588/891610
 
16291622
 a Flemish naval commander and Dunkirker during the Eighty Years' War. He became a posthumous hero...
John Browneunknown1620
 
1629unknown
 An English sailor who joined the Barbary pirates at Algiers and turned Mohammedan. Taken in the E...
Balduino Enricounknown1620
 
16291626 ca
 a Dutch privateer who starred in the famous assault to Puerto Rico of 1625. Baudouin Enrico is th...
Pedro de la Plesaunknown1620
 
1629unknown
 a 17th-century Spanish privateer. He served as a Dunkirker in the service of the Spanish Crown du...
Captain Samsonunknown1620
 
1629unknown
 English pirate who was active in the seventeenth century. Captured the ship the Vergulde Leeuw, C...
Dirck Simonszoon van Uitgeest1590 ca1620
 
16291635 ca
 Dutch pirate, he worked at the northern coast of South America. Challenged the Spanish and Portug...
Jan Marinus van Sommelsdijkunknown1620
 
1629unknown
 Former Dutch privateer turned Barbary corsair. He attacked the Dutch ship St. Jan Babtista under ...
Villa Riseunknown1620
 
1629unknown
 In the year 1621 this Moorish pirate commanded a small squadron of five vessels which took an Eng...
Dierick Ruyters unknown1618
 
1630unknown
 
John Nuttunknown1620
 
1632unknown
 a 17th-century English pirate. He was one of the more notorious brigands of his time raiding the ...
Sussex Camockunknown1625
 
1635unknown
 an English privateer who was involved in establishing the Providence Island colony, a Puritan col...
Liu Xiangunknown1620
 
16361636
 
Jacob Collaartunknown1625
 
16371637
 a Flemish admiral who served as privateer and one of the Dunkirkers in Spanish Habsburg service d...
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...
Nathaniel Butler1577/781619
 
1639 unknown
 an English privateer who later served as the colonial governor of Bermuda during the early 17th c...
Moses Cohen Henriquesunknown1620
 
1639unknown
 a Dutch pirate of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish origin active in the Caribbean against Spain and Br...
Jan van Ryenunknown1620
 
1639unknown
 a 17th-century Dutch privateer, explorer, and colonist. He was granted a commission by the Dutch ...
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...
Zheng Zhilong16041623
 
16451661
 a Chinese merchant, pirate and military leader in the late Ming dynasty who later defected to the...
Cornelius Corneliszoon Jol15971620
 
16491641, Oct 31
 a 17th-Century Dutch corsair and admiral in the Dutch West India Company during the Eighty Years'...
Catalina de Erausounknown1585
 
1650unknown
 a one-time nun who subsequently travelled around Spain and Spanish America, mostly under male ide...
Cornelis Evertsen the Elder1610, Aug 41626
 
16661666, Jun 11
 a Dutch admiral. In 1626 Cornelis is first mentioned as actually serving on sea, during a private...
Grillo Diego unknown1620
 
1673unknown
  Spanish but worked for the French, Hanged
Pierre Le Grandunknown1620 or 1660
 
1680unknown
 a French buccaneer of the 17th century. He is known to history only from one source, Alexandre Ex...
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