Ancient Female Pirates
Ch'iao K'uo Fü Jën: 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.
Female 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. Ælfhild, Alwilda, Alvilda: post-850 A.D. (some wrongly say c. 450 A.D.), Swedish Viking, runaway daughter of a Scandinavian king.
Ladgerda: c. 870 A.D., Viking.
Æthelflæd, "Lady of the Mercias."
16th Century Female Pirates
Grace O’Malley, a.k.a. Granuaile, Grainne O'Malley: 1500s, Atlantic, commanded three galleys and 200 men, know as the Pirate Queen of Connemara.
Lady Killigrew: 1530-1570, Cornwall, seized Spanish ships.
Mrs. Peter Lambert: of Aldeburgh, Suffolk late 1500s.
17th Century Female Pirates
Elizabetha Patrickson: 1634.
Jacquotte Delahaye: 1650s-1660s, Caribbean buccaneer.
Anne Dieu-le-veut: 1660s, Caribbean buccaneer.
La Marquise de Frèsne: late 1600s, Mediterranean.
Charlotte de Berry: 1636, England.
18th Century Female Pirates
Maria Lindsey: early 1700s, Canadian East Coast.
Anne Bonny, aliases Ann Bonn and Fulford, possibly also Sarah Bonny: 1719-1720, Caribbean, the lover of “Calico Jack” Rackham
Mary Read, alias Mark Read: 1718-1720, Caribbean, cross dressing female pirate.
Mary Harvey (or Harley), alias Mary Farlee: 1725-1726, Carolina.
Mary Crickett (or Crichett): 1728.
Rachel Wall: 1780s, New England Coast, considered to be the first American female pirate
19th Century Female Pirates
Sadie the Goat: 1800s, New York State, headbutted her victims before taking their money.
Charlotte Badger: widely considered to be the first Australian female pirate.
Catherine Hagerty: 1806, Australia and New Zealand.
Anonymous: died 1809 in a sea battle after wounding soldiers, attacking them with cutlasses in both her hands.
Margaret Jordan: 1809, Canadian East Coast.
Gertrude Imogene Stubbs alias "Gunpowder Gertie: the Pirate Queen of the Kootenays", 1898-1903, Kootenay Lake and river system of British Columbia, Canada.
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