Jacques de Sores

Jacques de Sores was a French pirate and corsair who attacked and burnt Havana, Cuba in 1555.

Other than his attack on Havana, little is known of de Sores. He was nicknamed "The Exterminating Angel" ("L'Ange Exterminateur"). He was the leader of a band of Huguenot pirates and a lieutenant or former lieutenant of another French pirate, François Le Clerc, who was called "Pegleg" or "Jambe de Bois" on account of his wooden leg. His five carracks approached the São Tiago and boarded, capturing it. He murdered 40 Jesuit Portuguese missionaries, dismembered and threw their bodies into the sea off Tazacorte – crosses on the sea floor still mark the site at Malpique today. Inácio de Azevedo was one of the , beatified by Pope Pius IX in 1854.