François l’Olonnais

François l’Olonnais was a French buccaneer operating from Tortuga and Hispaniola, notorious in contemporary accounts for extreme brutality toward Spanish captives, including the sack of Maracaibo and Gibraltar (Venezuela) in 1666-1667. Much of what is known about him comes from Alexandre Exquemelin’s 1678 book Buccaneers of America. He reportedly met a violent end at the hands of indigenous people in Central America around 1668.