Women PiratesA LIST |
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| Early Pirates | |
| Ch’iao K’uo Füü Jëën | Chinese legend from c. 600 B.C. |
| Queen Artemisia of Halicarnassus (in Greece) | 480 B.C., Mediterranean. |
| Elissa ("Dido") | c. 470 B.C., Mediterranean, legendary founder of Carthage |
| Queen Teuta of Illyria | 232 B.C. to 228 B.C., Adriatic Sea. |
| Viking/ Pirates | |
| Princess Sela | c. 420 A.D., Norwegian Viking |
| Princess Rusla | Norwegian Viking. |
| Russila and her sister Stikla | Norwegian Viking. |
| Wigbiorg | 800s A.D., Viking. |
| Hetha | 800s A.D., Viking. |
| Wisna | 800s A.D., Viking. |
| Alfhild, a.k.a. ÆÆlfhild, Alwilda, Alvilda | post-850 A.D. (some wrongly say. 450 A.D.), Swedish Viking. |
| Ladgerda | c. 870 A.D., Viking |
| ÆÆthelflææd | "Lady of the Mercias." |
| Pirates of the 16th Century | |
| Grace O’Malley, a.k.a. Granuaile | 1500s, Atlantic, commanded three galleys and 200 men. |
| Sida al Hurra | 1510-1542, Morocco. |
| Lady Killigrew | 1530-1570, Atlantic. |
| Mrs. Peter Lambert of Aldeburgh | Suffolk - late 1500s. |
| Pirates of the 17th Century | |
| Elizabetha Patrickson | 1634. |
| Jacquotte Delahaye | 1650s-1660s, Caribbean buccaneer. |
| Anne Dieu-le-veut | 1660s, Caribbean buccaneer. |
| La Marquise de Frèèsne | late 1600s, Mediterranean. |
| Maria Lindsey (fictional?) | early 1700s, Canadian East Coast. |
| Anne Bonny, aliases Ann Bonn and Fulford, possibly also Sarah Bonny | 1719-1720, Caribbean. |
| Mary Read, alias Mark Read | 1718-1720, Caribbean. |
| Mary Harvey (or Harley), alias Mary Farlee | 1725-1726, Carolina. |
| Mary Crickett (or Crichett) | 1728 |
| Fanny Campbell (fictional) | |
| Rachel Wall (fictional?) | 1780s, New England Coast. |
| Maria Cobham (fictional?) | Atlantic |
| Pirates of the 19th Century | |
| Sadie the Goat | 1800s, New York State. |
| Catherine Hagerty | 1806, Australia and New Zealand. |
| Charlotte Badger | |
| Margaret Jordan | 1809, Canadian East Coast. |
| Asian Pirates of the 19th & 20th Century | |
| Cheng I Sao (Ching Yih Saou) | 810s, South China Sea |
| T’ang Ch’en Ch’iao (nicknamed "Golden Grace") | |
| Lo Hon-cho (Honcho Lo) | took over command on husband’s death in 1921, was a supporter of the Chinese revolution. |
| Wong | 1922, united her 50 ship fleet with Lo Hon-cho’s 64 junks. |
| Lai Sho Sz’en (Lai Choi San) | 1922-1939, South China Sea, commanded 12 junks. |
| P’en Ch’ih Ch’iko | 1936, commanded 100 pirates. |
| Ki Ming (this may be another name for P’en Ch’ih Ch’iko). | |
| Huang P’ei-mei | 1937-1950s, leader of 50,000 pirates. |
| Linda | 1980s, Philippines. |