I was curious. I can't speak to the accuracy but I've always heard many sailors in that era were largely criminals, rapists, murderers and the like. And I'd wager there was a good bit of untreated disease, traumatic childhood & adulthood events, and good old fashioned insanity.
All I'm saying is that I don't know if I would apply modern political distinctions to people who lived and died 500+ years ago, their form of insanity is different than our insanity
I was curious and I found this from 1991, can't speak to the total accuracy but it's interesting to me to read about stuff like this:
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news...258-story.html