Some backwoods historian must not have gotten the message that there were no pirates near the Iberian Peninsula, there have never been pirates near the Iberian Peninsula and that any pirates near the Iberian Peninsula must have been from Spain, with the blessing of the Inquisition.
Wonder what nations would have been near the Iberian Peninsula that could have caused all that trouble?
Must have been Andorra or the Balearic Islands.
It was Spain, but that was a long while ago, when the two countries were at war over hats dropping.
How about Tripoli?
Louis fought a series of wars with Spain. One country’s privateer is another country’s pirate.