serviceyears death_place death_date birth_place allegiance rank article_title name type
1559-1572 curaçao 1572 france france captain jean bontemps
 jean bontemps privateer
jean bontemps

jean bontemps -lrb- died 1572 -rrb- was a french privateer .
in 1559 , sailing with jean-martin cotes , he attacked the towns of santa marta and cartagena de indias , in modern-day colombia .
bontemps and his men ransacked both towns and extorted a 4,000-peso ransom from cartagena .
in 1567 , bontemps cooperated with john lovell 's semi-piratical trading expedition to margarita , in modern venezuela .
a show of force provided the local spanish , who desperately needed supplies , with the necessary pretext to violate the royal prohibition on trading with foreign powers .
bontemps then attacked rio de la hacha without success , and does not appear to have taken part in lovell 's voyage there a few days later .
bontemps attempted a raid on curaçao in 1572 , but was killed by a spanish arrow or crossbow bolt through the throat .
the spanish took his head to santo domingo as a prize .
