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Census • Person • Delizuff

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Barbary corsair. In 1553, while Barbarossa was sailing from Algiers to Constantinople, he was joined by Delizuff with a fleet of eighteen pirate vessels. Delizuff was killed in an affair at the Island of Biba, and, the crews of the two corsairs quarrelling, the ships of Delizuff stole away one dark night.

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The Pirates' Who's Who: (P. Gosse, 1924)	Barbary corsair. In 1553, while Barbarossa was sailing from Algiers to Constantinople, he was joined by Delizuff with a fleet of eighteen pirate vessels. Delizuff was killed in an affair at the Island of Biba, and, the crews of the two corsairs quarre... more	Barbary corsair. In 1553, while Barbarossa was sailing from Algiers to Constantinople, he was joined by Delizuff with a fleet of eighteen pirate vessels. Delizuff was killed in an affair at the Island of Biba, and, the crews of the two corsairs quarrelling, the ships of Delizuff stole away one dark night. less

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	Delizuff	unknown	1550		1559	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...
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...
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) ....... 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...