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Henry Strangways (died 1562), also sometimes known as Strangwish,〔(Henry Strangwish ), Gerlach Flicke, National Portrait Gallery, accessed May 2009〕 was an English "Gentleman Pirate"〔 who attacked Spanish and other shipping. He was repeatedly imprisoned, and pardoned by highly placed friends, during his approximately eight-year piratical career, from about 1552 to 1560.〔 His portrait painted by a fellow prisoner, Gerlach Flicke, resides today in the National Portrait Gallery in London.〔 ==Biography== Strangways was born in Dorset to a well-known family of good standing,〔(Dorset Maritime History ), Rootsweb.com, accessed May 2009〕 thus he is sometimes referred to as a "Gentleman Pirate".〔 Strangways began his life as a pirate in 1552-53, plying the Irish Sea for plunder.〔 There he joined forces with the Cornish Killigrews, successful pirates themselves, using Portland Castle as a den to store loot.〔 His achievements were such that two men-of-war were prepared at Portsmouth to apprehend Strangways.〔 He next appears in the historical record in 1555 imprisoned in the Tower of London.〔 However nothing came of it and it is probable he had highly placed friends helping him out.〔 In 1559 he was condemned to death after being arrested with eighty of his men, but he managed to avoid the sentence just before execution.〔 That same year in 1559 he was recorded as wanting to ''"steal an island"'' from the King of Spain.〔(The Marian Exiles ) Christina Hallowell Garrett, p333, accessed May 2009〕 However, piracy seems to have taken precedence, he attacked not a Spanish island but Spanish ships. This is known to us because of an official complaint and request for damages which was made out to Philip II of Spain in which a ship, belonging to Johannes de Bagnes, was plundered by ''Enrriex Tranquaz'' (i.e. Strangways). The demand was made via Basilio Pignatelli, the Bishop of Aquila in 1559.〔'Elizabeth: September 1559, 26-30', (Calendar of State Papers Foreign, Elizabeth, Volume 1: 1558-1559 (1863), pp. 575-592 ), Date accessed: 24 May 2009〕 Strangway's imprisonment in December 1560 is probably related to his Spanish piracy; but he was released once again, this time under a promise of good conduct, further suggesting he had powerful friends and/or served a political state purpose behind his activities.〔 Strangways died a free man in 1562, pardoned once again by well placed friends, this time the highest, Queen Elizabeth I.〔(The Early Modern World ), Judith Kidd, Rosemary Rees, Ruth Tudor, p30, 2000, ISBN 0-435-32595-7, accessed May 2009〕 The Royal Pardon after his death, the many releases from jail, and the seemingly complicit co-operation by authorities (the use of Portland Castle as a pirate den for instance), has suggested to later historians that Strangways reputation is as much a "privateer" as pirate.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Strangways (pirate)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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