Margarita

Moorish woman of African Berber origin. A lady of the Mohammedan faith in Morocco.

(from Diane Foust Hubbard)

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Marriages of Murat Reis the Younger

In 1596, by an unknown Dutch woman, Janszoon's first child was born, Lysbeth Janszoon van Haarlem. In 1600, Jan Janszoon began as a Dutch privateer sailing from his home port, Haarlem, working for the state with letters of marque to harass Spanish shipping during the Eighty Years' War. During this period he had abandoned his Dutch family.

After becoming a privateer, Janszoon met an unknown woman in Cartagena, Spain, who he would marry. The identity of this woman is historically vague, but the consensus is that she was of some kind of mixed-ethnic background, considered "Moorish" in Spain. Historians have claimed her to be nothing more than a concubine, others claim she was a Muslim Mudéjar who worked for a Christian noble family, and other claims have been made that she was a "Moorish princess." Through this second marriage, Janszoon had four children: Abraham Janszoon van Salee (b.1602) Philip Janszoon van Salee (b. 1604) Anthony Janszoon van Salee (b.1607) Cornelis Janszoon van Salee (b. 1608)

The mother of Anthony Jansen van Salee was most likely Arabic not African. Many confirmed descendants of Anthony have no African DNA, but do have Middle Eastern DNA. It was suggested that Anthony's mother was one of the many daughters of the Dey of Morocco at the time when his father Jan was an admiral for that Leader at the time.

It is speculated that Janszoon married for a third time to the daughter of Sultan Moulay Ziden in 1624.

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After becoming a privateer in 1600, Jan Janszoon met an unknown woman in Cartagena, Spain, who he would marry. The identity of this woman is historically vague, but the consensus is that she was of some kind of mixed-ethnic background, considered "Moorish" in Spain. Historians have claimed her to be nothing more than a concubine, others claim she was a Muslim Mudéjar who worked for a Christian noble family, and other claims have been made that she was a "Moorish princess."

Through this second marriage, Janszoon had four children:

1. Abraham Janszoon van Salee (b.1602)
2. Philip Janszoon van Salee (b. 1604)
3. Anthony Janszoon van Salee (b.1607)
4. Cornelis Janszoon van Salee (b. 1608)

Origins

From Belkacem Oussala September 30, 2019

... “ as far as the sources about Margarita are concerned, they are in Morocco in the archives of the family al Shaabi who are the manager and curator of the Saadi Dynasty, you could consult them on the spot, and to see with the head of the current family it is called Sheikh Mohammad Al-Shaabi it is in the village of Azarif, I myself spent 13 years of research on my tree and discovered a lot of things which are not not to publish in the big days, which is a pity because there is a lot of things on the genealogy in the Saadian periaude, there is all the biography and even that of Margarita that I had translated into French.”