A List of Woment Pirates - Real and Legendary

Women Pirates & Privateers Real and Legendary
The following is a list of women pirates & privateers who may or may not have lived. The list was compiled by author / historian John Richard Stephens (Fern Canyon Press), Joan Druett (She Captains, Hen Frigates, etc), Christine Lampe of "No Quarter Given" and Ken Kinkor, Acting Director of Expedition Whydah. Portions of this list appear in Tamara J. Eastman and Constance Bonds’ booklet "The Pirate Trial of Anne Bonny and Mary Read." Read Lisa Jensen's new review of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest! Return to About Women Pirates
Pirates	Privateers
A Few Women Pirates
Name	Date / Location / Notes
*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 16^th 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 17^th 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 19^th 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 19^th & 20^th 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.
A FEW FEMALE PRIVATEERS
Name	Date / Location / Notes
Jeanne de Montfort ("The Flame")	1343, English Channel plundering French ships, fighting with the English for Brittany’s independence. (Some list her, Jeanne de Clisson and Jane de Belleville as pirates - especially the French.)
Jeanne de Clisson ("The Lioness of Brittany")	1343, English Channel plundering French ships.
Jane de Belleville	late 1340s, coast of Normandy plundering French ships.
Mary Read, alias Mark Read	1719, Caribbean.
Flora Burn	1741, American East Coast.
Sarah Bishop	1778-1780, this New Yorker was forced to join the crew of a British privateer during the Revolutionary War.
Mary Anne Talbot, alias John Taylor	on a French privateer, 1793-1794
Several black women (probably slaves) were cooks onboard the Duke, a British privateer	early 1800s, Pacific.
Anonymous female commander of French privateer La Baugourt -	1805, West Indies.
Anonymous French female privateer -	1811.