Cornelis Jol, Dutch admiral (born 1597)

Cornelis Jol

Dutch admiral (1597–1641)

Cornelis Corneliszoon Jol, nicknamed Houtebeen ("pegleg"), was a 17th-century Dutch corsair and admiral in the Dutch West India Company during the Eighty Years' War between Spain and the Dutch Republic. He was one of several early buccaneers to attack Campeche, looting the…