Top 10 Most Notorious Pirates!! From captured sailors turning into captains to powerful wives taking over crews…stay tuned to number 1 to find out who was the most notorious pirate in history!

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Number 10: Bartholomew Roberts.
Infamously known to the world as Black Bart, and known to his crew as Pistol Proof, Roberts was forced into piracy after the ship he was on was captured by the pirate Howell Davis. Shortly after his ships capture, Davis and his men took a liking to Roberts’s charisma, despite having been captured by the pirates, and they also took note of his incredible navigational skill.
Just three weeks after Roberts joined the crew, Howell Davis was fatally injured and the crew elected Roberts to take his place as the captain of the ship. Roberts’s reign only lasted four years, but it was believed that in that time, he had plundered around 400 ships before eventually dying in combat against British sea captain Chaloner Ogle.
News of Roberts’s death was so surprising, given his record of ships that he had beaten, that even the Royal Navy were shocked to hear of his defeat.
Number 9: William Kidd.
Back in the 1690’s, Scottish waters were ruled by one pirate and his crew…a pirate that had never actually intended to be a pirate in the first place.
William Kidd started out as a leading citizen of New York City and was even actively involved in the forming of the Trinity Church. He was originally a privateer and had been commissioned to assist in ridding the Scottish seas of pirates. After some time at sea however, his own crew began talking about crossing over to piracy themselves, and even elected for Captain Kidd to continue to lead them on the other side of the law. Reluctantly, Captain Kidd accepted the role and embraced his new life of piracy. Despite his reluctance, Captain Kidd built an impressive name for himself, and was largely feared throughout the Mediterranean.
Unfortunately for him, Captain Kidd was later captured in Boston and was taken back to England to stand trial. He was found guilty for his crimes of piracy and sentenced to death, after three attempts to hang him, they eventually got it right and ended his legacy.
Number 8: Edward Teach.
Most of us have heard of the legendary pirate known only to most as Blackbeard, Edward Teach is the man behind the name, and his exploits shows us exactly how he gained such notoriety.
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Blackbeard was not the most successful pirate of all time, but still was in command of four ships and an army of around 300 pirates. In battle he was ruthless and is best known to have rushed into the fight wielding two swords while also having an assortment of pistols and knives on him and at the ready. During his career he captured over forty merchant ships and had even defeated the famous warship HMS Scarborough.
While he had many unofficial wives, it’s believed that he was officially married to a sixteen year old girl, and that when she tried to reformed him from his pirate ways, he gave her to his crew as a gift.
Eventually though, the cruel and feared captain was caught and beheaded by the Royal Navy and his severed head was put on the banks of the Hampton River to serve as a warning to other pirates.
Number 7: Henry Every.
Known for a time as the world’s wealthiest pirate, Every began his sea bound career serving as a deck hand on various ships before joining what was known as the Spanish Expedition Shipping in the 1690’s. Every arranged a mutiny against the then captain, and eventually took his place at the helm of the ship.
One of Every’s greatest feats was when he came across India’s own fleet of ships carrying much of its gold. Every’s fleet of ships pursued the fleet and managed to board two of the ships in the fleet. It is believed that between the two ships he plundered around 600,000 pounds of gold and paid the pirates under his command 1,000 pounds of gold each…the equivalent of 80 years worth of sea work.
Captain Every is one of the few pirates ever to have retired and little is known of him after his retirement. Some believe that he died shortly afterwards as a poor sailor, while others maintain that he lived a long life despite the bounty that remained on his head.
Number 6: The Barbarossa Brothers.
As far as teamwork goes, the Barbarossa brothers are right up there. Named Aruj and Hizir, the brothers earned their notoriety by capturing European ships in the Mediterranean Sea and plundering any gold or merchandise they might have been carrying.

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