Era
Golden Age of Piracy
3 pirates in the codex active during this period.
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Edward Teach
c. 1680 – 22 November 1718English pirate active in the Caribbean and along the American Atlantic coast in 1716–1718; commanded the captured French slaver La Concorde, which he refitted as the forty-gun Queen Anne’s Revenge and used to blockade the harbour of Charleston.
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Bartholomew Roberts
17 May 1682 – 10 February 1722Welsh pirate considered by most reckoning the most successful of the Golden Age; captured an estimated four hundred vessels across a three-year career spanning the Caribbean, West African coast, and Atlantic seaboard.
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Anne Bonny
c. 1697 – after October 1720 (further dates disputed)Irish-born pirate active with John "Calico Jack" Rackham’s small Caribbean crew in 1720; one of two women, with Mary Read, convicted of piracy at the Spanish Town trials of November 1720.