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after being captured by pirates, friar Matthew Carrieri offered to remain a captive in place of others, which shocked the pirate captain so much he set all the prisoners free?
after Chief Justice of the King's Bench Robert Tresilian was executed for treason in 1388 (pictured), his wife married a pirate?
the Maniot pirate, Limberakis Gerakaris, was twice held as a prisoner by the Ottomans and spent the last fourteen years of his life as a Venetian prisoner?
the medieval pirate Cord Widderich occupied Eiderstedt and made the Pellworm church tower his base?
the English pirate Peter Love set up a base of operation in the Outer Hebrides, but was betrayed by an associate outlaw and executed by the Scottish Government in 1610?
the Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca (pictured), built to defend the Cuban city of Santiago de Cuba from pirate attacks, was captured and partially destroyed by pirates while it was being constructed?
Theobald Burke, son of the pirate queen Grace O'Malley, was born at sea in 1567, shortly before his mother's fleet engaged in a battle with Barbary pirates?
Sir Murray Maxwell, a celebrated Royal Navy officer, once spent weeks marooned on an island under attack from pirates following the loss of HMS Alceste in 1817?
St. Clement's Church in Büsum, Germany (pictured) is furnished with items looted from Pellworm by the pirate Cord Widderich?
Novgorod's medieval river pirates, called ushkuiniki, wreaked havoc along the Volga River as far downstream as Kazan and Astrakhan?
Goose Creek State Park, a North Carolina state park off Pamlico Sound, is in an inlet that once provided cover for Blackbeard, Stede Bonnet and other pirates?
Jan Willems was present at Roatan in 1683 for one of the largest "Brethren of the Coast" pirate gatherings?
Jordan de Exeter, sheriff of Connacht, died fending off a Hebridean pirate raid in 1258?
Joost van Dyk, a 17th century Dutch privateer and occasional pirate and slaver, established the first permanent European settlements in the British Virgin Islands?
Arthur Ransome's fictional pirate Nancy Blackett, captain of the Amazon, does not use her real name Ruth because "Amazons are ruthless"?

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