Editing Jean Bart (section)

==Early life==
Jean Bart was born in [[Dunkirk, France|Dunkirk]] in 1650<ref name=BR>{{cite web|title=Baptismal record|url=http://www.flandrianostra.org/Jan_Baert/default.htm|access-date=14 April 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120429130200/http://www.flandrianostra.org/Jan_Baert/default.htm|archive-date=29 April 2012}}</ref> to a seafaring family, the son of Jean-Cornil Bart (c. 1619–1668) who has been described variously as a [[fisherman]]<ref name=AmerCyc>{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Bart, or Baert, Jean |encyclopedia=The American cyclopaedia |pages=343 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=usVPAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA343 |access-date=3 June 2011 |last1=Ripley |first1=George |last2=Dana |first2=Charles Anderson |year=1873 }}</ref> or [[French corsairs|corsair]] commander sailing for the [[Dutch Republic]].<ref name=ANE/><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fWcysbs5x5AC |title=Jean Bart|isbn=9782213663975 |last1=Villiers |first1=Patrick |date=10 April 2013 |publisher=Fayard }}</ref> His grandfather, Cornil Weus([[:fr:Cornil Weus|fr]]), was a vice-admiral and fought the Dutch on behalf of Spain at the beginning of the [[Eighty Years' War]]. His great-grandfather, [[Michel Jacobsen]], distinguished himself in the service of the Spanish crown, bringing back the [[Invincible Armada]] after its failed attempt to invade England in 1588, and was appointed vice-admiral by [[Philip IV of Spain]]. His great-uncle, [[Jan Jacobsen]], also in the service of Spain, blew himself up with his ship in 1622 rather than surrender. He almost certainly spoke [[French Flemish|Dutch]], at that time the native language in the region, and his birth name was ''Jan Baert''.<ref name=AmerCyc/><ref>{{Cite book |title=Flanders: a cultural history |last=De Vries
 |first=André |year=2007 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-531493-9 |page=273 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M7poAAAAMAAJ&q=Jan+Baert |access-date=3 June 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Histoire Maritime de France  |last=Guerin |first=Leon |language=fr |year=1851 |publisher=Dufour & Mulat |location=Paris |oclc=464444400 |page=[https://archive.org/details/histoiremaritim00guergoog/page/n519 479] |url=https://archive.org/details/histoiremaritim00guergoog |quote=Jan Baert.  |access-date=3 June 2011 }}</ref>