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Census • Person • Willem Jansen

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unknown	1600	unknown

Dutch corsair based in Duinkerken and one time officer under Jacques Colaert........Dutch privateer who commanded a ship that had 8 cannons and over 60 crewmen. He and his ship were part of a fleet of 12 privateers that sailed from Duinkerken in 1600. They attacked a Dutch fleet of fishing-vessels near the Scottish coast on August 14. 25 fishing-boats were burned and sunk. After several privateer ships left on their own, the rest of the fleet, 7 vessels, continued attacking Dutch fishing-boats in the Noordzee. On 19 August the fleet again attacked several fishing-boats. After this raid he returned with his vessel to the port of Duinkerken. In 1602 his ship was part of a squadron that tried to sail from Duinkerken despite a large blockade of 17 Dutch war-ships. He managed to leave the port without being noticed, as did the ship of Michiel Jacobsen, but the third ship was not so lucky. This vessel, commanded by Andries Dirksen, was chased and run aground on the beach near Nieuwpoort.

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	Willem Jansen	unknown	1600		1600	unknown

Anthonis Rijcx	unknown	1585	1601	unknown
Privateer active in the years 1585 - 1601 from Duinkerken. He had a letter of Marque from the Spa...
William Craston	unknown	1590	1601	unknown

Baltazar de Cordes	unknown	1598	1601	1601?
a Dutch corsair who fought against the Spanish during the early 17th Century. Born in the Netherl...
Olivier van Noort	1558	1598	1601	1627, Feb 22
the first Dutchman to circumnavigate the world. His ships were poorly equipped, especially in the...
Marcantonio Calefati	1545, May 1	1565	1602	1602, Nov 10
On 12 March 1568, after he had already participated in the War of Malta (1565) and that of Hungar...
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...
Sir Michael Geare	1565 ca	1584	1603	unknown
a 16th-century English sailor, privateer and merchant. One of the many Sea Dogs who plagued the S...
Sir James Lancaster	1554	1591	1603	1618
a prominent Elizabethan trader and privateer, active in India during the late 16th century. In 15...
George Clifford	unknown	1558	1605	unknown
an English peer, naval commander and courtier of Queen Elizabeth I. He helped to prepare an exped...
Murat Reis the Elder	1534	1560	1608/38	1608/9/38
an Albanian privateer and admiral of the Ottoman Navy. He is regarded as one of the most importan...
John Oxenham	1536	1570	1609	1580
Elizabethan Sea Dog and associate of Sir Francis Drake during the early years of the Anglo-Spanis...
Jan Claasen	unknown	1590	1609	unknown
Dutch privateer in the service of Spain in 1599. He sailed from the port of Duinkerken. He attack...
Adriaan Dirksen	unknown	1590	1609	unknown
Dirksen was vice-admiral and member of the board of admirals of Duinkerken in 1597. In May 1599 h...
Amyas Preston	unknown	1590	1609	1609
an English privateer of the Elizabethan period. Prestin came from Cricket St Thomas in Somerset. ...
Elizabeth Shirland	1577	1590	1609	unknown
she was born around 1577 in Devonshire, England. Elizabeth and some of her family joined a group ...
Anthony Shirley	1565	1590	1609	1637
an English traveller, whose imprisonment in 1603 by King James I caused the English House of Comm...
Cornelius Goll	unknown	1598	1609	unknown

Mahieu Jacobsen	unknown	1599	1609	unknown
Privateer in the service of Spain at the end of the 16th and at the beginning of the 17th century...
George Somers	1554, Apr	1570	1610	1610
an English naval hero, knighted for his achievements and the Admiral of the Virginia Company. He ...
Peter Love	unknown	1590	1610	1610
an English pirate, said to have been born in Lewes, Sussex. He was the captain of the Priam, and ...
Richard Bishop	1550 ca	1561	1617	1617 ca
Pirate of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. ..... English pirate. He served in the Mediterra...
William Parker	unknown	1587	1617	1617
an English captain and privateer, and also Mayor of Plymouth. He was born near Plymouth and wa...
Christopher Newport	1561	1588	1617	1617
an English seaman and privateer. He is best known as the captain of the Susan Constant, th...
Sir Walter Raleigh	1554 ca	1569	1618	1618, Oct 29
an English landed gentleman, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer. He i...
John Ward [1]	1552/53	1590	1619	1622
a notorious English pirate around the turn of the 17th century who later became a Barbary Corsair...
Jacob Willekens	1564/71	1590	1639	1633/1649
a Dutch admiral on a fleet to the Dutch Indies, and a herring seller, who went to sea again at th...
Catalina de Erauso	unknown	1585	1650	unknown
a one-time nun who subsequently travelled around Spain and Spanish America, mostly under male ide...