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Pirates • Naval born active died
1500 ca 1535-1550s 1565
a squire, admiral, feudal overlord in Norway and Denmark, privateer captain and pirate. Kristoffer served Archbishop Olav Engelbrektsson, the interregnum leader of Norway, in the last years of the Kalmar Union. Operated in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. Gave up piracy in 1542 and eventually became admiral of the Danish Fleet.
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Kristoffer Trondson 1500 ca 1535
1559 1565
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 Francis Beme unknown 1530 1549 unknown In 1539 this Baltic pirate was cruising off Antwerp, waiting to waylay English merchant vessels.
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 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... Giorgio Adorno unknown 1550 1559 1558 ca Italian pirate and knight of Malta.
He worked around Malta and Italy. He was captain of the gall... Delizuff unknown 1550 1559 unknown Barbary corsair. In 1553, while Barbarossa was sailing from Algiers to Constantinople, he was joi... Captain Easton unknown 1550 1559 unknown Joined the Barbary pirates in the sixteenth century, succeeding so well as to become, according t... Henry Strangways unknown 1552 1560 1562 an English "Gentleman Pirate" who attacked Spanish and other shipping. He was repeatedly imprison... Aisa unknown 1540 1560s 9 unknown A famous Mediterranean pirate, and one of Dragut's admirals (Aisa was Drugat's nephew) in the six... Cigala unknown 1551 1561 unknown 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... Captain Robert Blondel 1530 ca 1550 1568 1568 ca wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_San_Juan_de_Ulúa_(1568)
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French captai... 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... Francois Le Clerc unknown 1550 1569 1563 a 16th-century French privateer, originally from Normandy. He is credited as the first pirate in... Matsura Takanobu 1529 1550 1569 1599, Apr 1 a 16th-century Japanese samurai and 25th hereditary lord of the Matsura clan of Hirado. He was o... Mustapha unknown 1558 1569 unknown In 1558 he sailed, with a fleet of 140 vessels, to the Island of Minorca. Landed, and besieged th... Jacques de Sores unknown 1550 1579 unknown A French pirate whose sole documented act was his attack and burning of Havana in 1555. Other tha... 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... Grace O'Malley 1530 1550 1603 1603 chieftain of the Ó Máille clan in the west of Ireland, following in the footsteps of her father... George Clifford unknown 1558 1605 unknown an English peer, naval commander and courtier of Queen Elizabeth I. He helped to prepare an exped...
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