Magister Wigbold

Magister Wigbold (died 1401), (alternative spellings: Wygbold, Wycholt), also called “Master of the Seven Arts” was a German pirate who belonged to the famous Likedeeler pirates of Klaus Störtebeker who were active in the North and Baltic seas.

Matthias Puhle calls him a Likedeeler captain of the second generation, no longer members of the Mecklenburg aristocracy.

[5] In 1400, the Hanseatic League sent a sizable military force to smash the group.

Michels and Wigbold escaped at first, and probably spent a winter in Norway, before returning to East Frisia, where they were finally captured.

One year after the death of Störtebeker, they too were executed on the Grasbrook in Hamburg together with eighty other pirates.