Cornelisjol
Cornelisjol or Corneliss Jol is a pirate sailing the Sage Ocean, currently Cornelis isn't in a crew or flag.
Biography
Cornelis Jol, nicknamed Houtebeen ("pegleg"), was a 17th-Century Dutch corsair and admiral in the Dutch West India Company during the Eighty Year's War between Spain and the fledgling Dutch Republic. He was one of several early buccaneers to attack Campeche, looting the settlement in 1633, and was active against the Spanish in the Spanish Main and throughout the Caribbean during the 1630s and 40s.
Jol was really more of a pirate (or rather privateer) than an admiral, raiding Spanish and Portuguese fleets and gathering large amounts of loot. He was nicknamed Houtebeen (Pé de Pau in Portuguese and Pata de Palo in Spanish), because he lost a leg during battle and got a wooden leg, being one of the earliest documented pirates to use a wooden peg leg. The Spanish also nicknamed him El Pirata.
His son, also called Cornelis Corneliszoon Jol (or Hola), pursued a career at sea as well and served as an officer in the Dutch navy. He was captain of the Leiden under admiral Maarten Tromp during the First Anglo-Dutch War (1652-1654).
Current plans
Cornelis is now looking to aquire more information about the Sage ocean, to conquer it in the name of the Royal Dutch Navy.
Maxims
- idc
- Avast! Where is me... !
- Life's a beach
- Ooh yea my shiny spanish silver!
- A pirate got to do what a pirate got to do.
- Never look into a canon of a given frig, or anny other.
- Heve ho! Get on your stations my mates, we going to get us some shiny gold!
