Jan Janszoon


Jan Janszoon van Haarlem, commonly known as Murat Reis the Younger was the first President and Grand Admiral of the Corsair Republic of Sal, Governor of Oualidia, and a Dutch Barbary pirate, one of the most famous of the Sal Rovers from the 17th century.

Jan Janszoon van Haerlem was born in Haarlem, North Holland, Republic of the Netherlands in 1575. The Eighty Years War had started seven years previously and lasted all his life. Little is known of his early life, except that he married Soutgen Cave in 1595 and had two children with her, Edward and Lysbeth. He married Margarita, a Moorish woman, in Cartagena around 1600. They had four children Anthony, Abraham, Phillip, and Cornelis.

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