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Bartholomew Roberts

1682 - 1722

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Bartholomew Roberts (17 May 1682 – 10 February 1722), born John Roberts, was a Welsh pirate who was, measured by vessels captured, the most successful pirate of the Golden Age of Piracy. During his piratical career, he took over 400 prize ships. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bartholomew Roberts has received more than 1,967,943 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Bartholomew Roberts is the 6th most popular pirate (up from 10th in 2019), the 334th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 384th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular British Pirate.

Bartholomew Roberts was a Welsh pirate who raided ships in the Caribbean and off the coast of Africa from 1719 to 1722. He was the most successful pirate of the Golden Age of Piracy, capturing more than 400 ships.

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Among PIRATES

Among pirates, Bartholomew Roberts ranks 6 out of 25. Before him are Hayreddin Barbarossa, Blackbeard, Henry Morgan, Eric of Pomerania, and Anne Bonny. After him are Calico Jack, Mary Read, D. B. Cooper, William Kidd, François l'Olonnais, and Sextus Pompey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1682, Bartholomew Roberts ranks 3. Before him are Charles XII of Sweden and Louis, Duke of Burgundy. After him are Calico Jack, Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Johann Friedrich Böttger, Şehsuvar Sultan, Jacopo Amigoni, Princess Albertina Frederica of Baden-Durlach, Jan van Huysum, William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, and Claudine Guérin de Tencin. Among people deceased in 1722, Bartholomew Roberts ranks 3. Before him are Kangxi Emperor and Elizabeth Charlotte, Madame Palatine. After him are John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, John Toland, Johann Adam Reincken, Johann Kuhnau, Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, Pierre Varignon, Marie Anne de La Trémoille, princesse des Ursins, Éléonore Desmier d'Olbreuse, and Countess Palatine Hedwig Elisabeth of Neuburg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Bartholomew Roberts ranks 334 out of 7,765. Before him are Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828), Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (1220), Ian McShane (1942), Rudolf Abel (1903), Gertrude Bell (1868), and Anne, Princess Royal (1950). After him are Rod Stewart (1945), Henry Moseley (1887), William Hogarth (1697), Christopher Marlowe (1564), Enid Blyton (1897), and Vivienne Westwood (1941).

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Among PIRATES In United Kingdom

Among pirates born in United Kingdom, Bartholomew Roberts ranks 3. Before him are Blackbeard (1680) and Henry Morgan (1635). After him are Calico Jack (1682), Mary Read (1695), William Kidd (1645), Henry Every (1659), Benjamin Hornigold (1680), Charles Vane (1680), Samuel Bellamy (1689), and Edward Low (1690).

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