Episode 237 - The King of Madagascar
The Pirate History Podcast
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Henry Every's Mythical Kingdom
- The rumor persisted that Henry Every established a kingdom on Madagascar, married a sultan's daughter, and commanded an army.
- This narrative was popularized in biographies by Adrian Von Broek and Captain Charles Johnson.
- In reality, Every likely didn't find a quiet island to settle down and build a castle.
- This myth conflates stories of Adam Baldrige, Thomas II, the Mughal women's rape on the Ganji Sawai, and Abraham Samuel, who set himself up as a king.
- Henry Every became a figurehead, a marketable commodity for newspapers and books, embodying various real and fictional pirate tales.
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