Henry Strangways (pirate)

Henry Strangways (* 1527 in the county of Dorset, † 1562 in Rouen ) was a shipowner, who had specialized in piracy.

Life

Henry Strangways was born into an old established family, which participated through the right beach and coastal piracy on maritime trade. His mother was Margaret Manners. His father, Knight, Sir Henry Strangways died on September 14, 1544 at the capture of Boulogne -sur -Mer.

Commissioned by Henry Strangways the most Christian seafaring was interfered 1552-1560.

Henry Strangways brought inherited and acquired capital in the company of Cornish Killigrews which had their headquarters in the 1539 Henry VIII built Portland Castle on the Isle of Portland in Dorset, a.

Maritime Law in the Early Modern Period

1490 Commercial Law were written between Lehnsnehmern of the Kingdom of Castile and the subjects of the English Crown in the Treaty of Okyng. 1500 the Catholic King and Queen, it enacted in a Pragmatica that only Lehnsnehmer of the Kingdom of Castile allowed on ships from the Kingdom of Castile Lehnnehmern transport goods. In an attempt to port the canonically sanctioned feudal law of plaice on the lake, the Lehnmänner the Castilian crown hoisted the flag of Castile on their ships. In this communication pirate flag hoisted the symbol of memento mori. Henry VIII was in 1538 expelled from the Catholic Church and proclaimed himself King of Ireland in 1542, which he had previously ruled as Lord. There have been efforts in Ireland the Castilian empire take. 1552 and 1553 was applied ships on behalf of Henry Strangways in the Irish Sea. Due to complaints of two warriors were sent from Portsmouth, which Henry Strangways arrested. 1555, he was in the Tower of London in prison. Since England did not belong to the Holy Roman Empire, was Henry Strangways of the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina to which the Embarrassing survey was spared in its custody. The complaints against Henry Strangways could not be substantiated.

1559 Philip II of Spain sent Juan de Ayala and Basilio Pignatelli, who later became Bishop of the Archdiocese of L' Aquila, as ambassadors to carry forward the complaints of his Lehnsnehmer.

The ambassador of the Most Christian King in England in 1559 could end up bad, because until 1558 the Catholic Mary I of England England had failed attempts to re-catholicize. Basilio Pignatelli filed a case against Henry Strangways, the argument put forward by the Castilian page filling a Castilian island, could not be substantiated before the court of Elizabeth I of England. So was Henry Strangways and 80 inmates, who came with him in December 1560 in prison, the death penalty, which was provided for this breach of the law, spared.