







For those of you who don’t have time to peruse the footnotes, the short version:

We know she existed, she led forces against France, and she became a pirate.

How long, and to what extent, we don’t know. Estimates range from five months to thirteen years.

She possibly palled around with another badass female pirate named Jeanne — Joanna of Flanders, aka Jeanne la Flamme. Her pointy-hat outfit early on is actually based on Joanna!

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