The Pirate That Had WAY Too Many Flags...

If a ship hoisted black colors, you knew they were pirates. It was a flag able to strike fear into anyone. Most pirates just used a black flag with a skull and bones, or a plain black flag. The color alone was enough to signal their true intentions. Some pirates designed their own flags. Pirate Captain Bartholomew Roberts has TWELVE flags attributed to him. But did he really design all of those flags himself? In this video we'll be taking a look at all of the flags attributed to Bartholomew Roberts, their meaning, and their plausibility.

Sources:
Jolly Rogers, the True History of Pirate Flags - E.T Fox
The Golden Age of Piracy - Benerson Little
A General History of the Pyrates - Charles Johnson(boom)

0:00 Introduction
1:20 Fake Flags
3:45 Charles Johnson's Flags
7:25 Real Flags
10:13 Conclusion
10:45 Outro

#pirates #flags #history #bartholomewroberts

[spirospagiatis]

Here's my pirate meme :

Bartholomew Roberts when he attacks Portuguese, Irish and French ships : IMMA FIRIN' MAH

[MrMicc-vklb]

I too enjoy flags with "skellingtons" on them. Love you're vids mate. On my journey to watch them all.

[TheGusRo]

Great video! just think defining flags not corroborated by eye witnesses as false instead of unconfirmed might be too strict

[MegaSnake]

Map props for using The Secret of Monkey Island - Ghost Ship Shuffle music at the beginning! Also, great video.

[Goodroosters]

Of course Blackbeard's flag didn't look like the popularly purported one! We all know that he was holding a Luger P08 and not a chalice!

[taxman]

My ideal pirate flag is an unamused skeleton holding the letters Y E S which stands for Your Empire Sucks

[jnezki]

Hi absolutely love the content.
Could you do video on smaller boats rowboast and sailboats without decks etc?

[joeerickson]

"Treasure island, 🏝 by Robert Louis Stevenson." "Peter Pan, 🍳 by J.M. Barrie." "Robinson Cruosoe, by Daniel Defoe."

[JCOwens-zqfd]

The original flag (the black flag w/ white skull & crossbones) did mean something all its own in the beginning. When the Templar refugees adopted it they made it black/white to represent the sides of the kabbalah tree. The deaths head reminds us that we will die. Of course there are deeper meanings beyond this but that is the base concept. Thats why organizations like "Skull & Bones" use the symbol today.

[internetkurator]

For my characters, I tend to change the flags too way too many times, I can never decide :-D

[spirospagiatis]

Question : Did the French sloops of war (during the golden Age of Piracy) have two masts or just one ?

[mageillus]

Bartholomew “more flags than friends” Roberts

[spirospagiatis]

Question for everyone : Which one of them is your favorite fictional pirate :

1. Captain Jack Sparrow (my favorite)
2. Captain Barbossa
3. Blackbeard from Pirates of the Caribbean 4
4. Captain Pugwash
5. Red Rackham from the Adventures of Tintin
6. Captain Flint
7. Long John Silver
8. Billy Bones
9. Captain Skunkbeard from Scooby-Doo Pirates Ahoy
10. The Pirate Captain from The Pirates! Band of Misfits

[spirospagiatis]

Question : What kind of figureheads slave ships of the Royal African Company like the Onslow (later the final Royal Fortune) had ?
A. Of a horse?
B. Of a lion?
C. Of a native?
D. Of a woman?

[TEMPcontrol]

All my pirate knowledge was a lie. Now i must relearn

[joeerickson]

"Yo, ho, ho and a bottle 🍾 of rum!"🥃

[quistan]

I'm just getting to watching this now. As always, I've learned some things, but without being a contrarian I want to add a historical postulation.
Flags in general have been a part of history as long as there have been humans on the planet, and especially since pirates of the golden age were of western European decent, they would have been steeped in the traditions of heraldry. The basic jolly roger design having deaths head with crossed bones in behind is almost a mockery of a helmet and crossed arms on a "coat of arms".
Even though we don't have many good examples of historical pirate flags, I don't feel at all remiss in stating that any flag we can think of today could, have easily been a potential flag from history.
That having been said, if you'd like me to draw you up a Flag with a giant pussy on a pink field and crossed tampons so you can use it in a thumbnail that says "Blackbeards forgotten Flag?"... Because your comment was hilarious my friend ;)

[AlexMig]

no historical video is complete with The 🗿 sound

[mm-ehpp]

pirates got invented so u buy insurance 🤣

[Neptune]

What do you think of the Pirate History Podcast?