Henry Strangways

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Henry Strangways, portrait of a fellow prisoner, painted Gerlach Flicke , is now in the National Portrait Gallery in London

Henry Strangways (* 1527 in the county of Dorset , † 1562 in Rouen ) was a shipowner who specialized in piracy .

Life

Henry Strangways was born into a long-established family who participated in sea trade through beach law and coastal piracy. His mother was Margaret Manners. His father, knight, Sir Henry Strangways died on September 14, 1544 while taking Boulogne-sur-Mer .

On behalf of Henry Strangways, piracy was carried out against Spanish and other ships from 1552 to 1560.

Henry Strangways brought inherited and acquired capital into the company of the Cornish Killigrews , who had their place of business in Portland Castle, built by Henry VIII in 1539 on the Isle of Portland in the county of Dorset.

Portland Castle entrance.
Portland Castle view from Portland Harbor
Portland Castle: Gun

Maritime Trade Law in the Early Modern Era

In 1490, in the Treaty of Okyng, trade law was drawn up between feudal recipients of the Kingdom of Castile and subjects of the English crown. In 1500 the Catholic royal couple had it stipulated in a pragmatica that only feudal recipients from the Kingdom of Castile were allowed to transport goods on ships owned by feudal recipients from the Kingdom of Castile . As a test, the canonically sanctioned feudal law to port the soil to the lake, the Lehnmänner the Castilian crown hoisted the flag of Castile on their ships. In this flag communication, pirates hoisted the symbol for memento mori . Henry VIII was expelled from the Catholic Church in 1538 and in 1542 appointed himself King of Ireland, which he had previously ruled as Lord. There were attempts to incorporate Ireland into the Castilian empire. In 1552 and 1553 ships were raised in the Irish Sea on behalf of Henry Strangways . Due to lawsuits, two warriors were sent from Portsmouth and arrested Henry Strangways. In 1555 he was imprisoned in the Tower in London . Since England did not belong to the Holy Roman Empire , Henry Strangways of the Constitutio Criminalis Carolina to which the embarrassing questioning belonged was spared in his pre-trial detention . The lawsuits against Henry Strangways could not be substantiated.

In 1559 Philip II of Spain sent Juan de Ayala and Basilio Pignatelli, who later became the bishop of the Archdiocese of L'Aquila , as ambassadors to present the complaints of his tenants.

The ambassadors of the most Christian king could hardly land in England in 1559, since attempts to re-Catholicize England under the Catholic Mary I of England had failed until 1558 . Basilio Pignatelli brought a case against Henry Strangways, the occupation of a Castilian island brought forward by the Castilian side could not be substantiated before the jurisdiction of Elizabeth I of England . Henry Strangways and 80 fellow prisoners who were arrested with him in December 1560 were spared the death penalty, which was intended for this violation of the law.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerlach Flicke; Henry Strangwish (or Strangways)
  2. ↑ DORSET MARITIME HISTORY
  3. ↑ 'Elizabeth: August 1559, 1-5', Calendar of State Papers Foreign, Elizabeth, Volume 1: 1558-1559 (1863), pp. 432-450.
  4. ↑ Valladolid, 30 Sept. 1559, Philip, King of Spain, to the Queen after 'Elizabeth: September 1559, 26-30', Calendar of State Papers Foreign, Elizabeth, Volume 1: 1558-1559 (1863), pp. 575-592.
  5. ↑ Christina Hallowell Garrett, The Marian Exiles , 1938
  6. ^ Judith Kidd, Rosemary Rees, Ruth Tudor, The early modern world
personal data
SURNAME Strangways, Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Strangwish, Henry; Enrriex Tranguaz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English privateer
DATE OF BIRTH 1527
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorset county
DATE OF DEATH 1562
Place of death Rouen