Was Barbossa Jack's first mate?

In his youth, Hector Barbossa was an honest sailor who left to make an easier living as a pirate. Originally a captain of the schooner Cobra, Hector would join the crew aboard the Black Pearl as Captain Jack Sparrow's first mate.
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How did Barbossa become Jack's first mate?

In Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio's first screenplay draft of At World's End, following an encounter with Jack Sparrow in Davy Jones' Locker Hector Barbossa would have agreed to sail aboard the Black Pearl under Sparrow as his First Mate.
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Who was Jack Sparrow first mate?

Joshamee Gibbs!" ―Joshamee Gibbs[src] Joshamee Gibbs was the longtime comrade and devoted first mate of Captain Jack Sparrow. Teller of tales, handy with a bottle, this veteran sea salt was truly a skillful sailor who cleverly navigated his way through many deadly situations.
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Was Barbossa part of Jack's crew?

While he was captain of the Black Pearl, Jack Sparrow had several different crews serving under his command. The first known crew sailed with Jack to Tortuga after he made the deal with Davy Jones. Prior to the quest for the Shadow Gold, Jack was joined by Hector Barbossa, who became his first mate.
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What is the relationship between Jack Sparrow and Barbossa?

Jack and Barbossa have a sticky history. Barbossa was Jack's first mate while he was captain of the Black Pearl, but Barbossa led a mutiny against him and left him for dead on a deserted island. To Barbossa's great frustration, Jack always managed to come back.
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Why does Barbossa hate Jack?

Barbossa hates Jack so much because Jack is sort of like a pirate White Prince compared to him: (1) His father's already a powerful pirate, (2) Jack's spoiled and probably didn't start out by the "sweat of his brow" and all that and (3) Jack got a top-rate ship for nothing while Barbossa lost everything he had in ...
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Why did Barbossa name his monkey Jack?

Jack the Monkey, or simply Jack, was the second pet monkey owned by the black-hearted Captain Hector Barbossa. Mockingly named after Captain Jack Sparrow, this capuchin monkey was considered the meanest, most rotten-tempered simian in all of the Caribbean.
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Who is Barbossa to Jack?

Captain Barbossa was also a deadly enemy and nemesis to Captain Jack Sparrow. In his youth, Hector Barbossa was an honest sailor who left to make an easier living as a pirate. Originally a captain of the schooner Cobra, Hector would join the crew aboard the Black Pearl as Captain Jack Sparrow's first mate.
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Did Barbossa and Jack become friends?

They met in The Price of Freedom. Barbossa lost his ship, the Cobra, and he and Jack mutually helped each other and developed a friendly relationship.
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What happened between Jack Sparrow and Barbossa?

Ten years before the events of The Curse of the Black Pearl, Barbossa led a mutiny against Jack Sparrow and marooned him on an uncharted island. Arriving at the treasure of Isla de Muerta, 882 identical pieces of Aztec gold, they claim it and spend it all.
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Did Jack Sparrow ever fall in love?

Despite all the aforementioned characters being Jack's old flames, Angelica is the only one that particularly received the status of a true love interest.
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Did Jack Sparrow have a love interest?

Angelica. Despite the character being a lead for all five Pirates of the Caribbean movies, Jack Sparrow only receives a conventional love interest in On Stranger Tides. The fourth movie introduces Angelica, the daughter of Blackbeard who Jack seduced years before the sequel's action begins.
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Who did Jack Sparrow have a child with?

Angelica Teach have said to Jack Sparrow, before he leaves her at the desert island that she was pregnant in his child but he didn't believe her. Actually Angelica said the truth. She was indeed pregnant and he was the father.
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Did Barbossa know who Calypso was?

She helped Jack Sparrow in his search for the Dead Man's Chest, using her crab claws to scry the location of the Flying Dutchman, and then joined on the journey to the Land of the Dead. Hector Barbossa was one of the few who knew that none other than Tia Dalma was the human incarnation of the goddess, Calypso.
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Why did Calypso revive Barbossa?

Barbossa in turn reminded her that she, secretly the goddess Calypso, was the one who needed him; she resurrected Barbossa so he could help retrieve Jack Sparrow from Davy Jones' Locker and summon a meeting of the Brethren Court, since only the nine Pirate Lords had the power to free Calypso.
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Does Barbossa respect Jack?

Even after all they have been through, Barbossa was secretly an admirer of Jack's incredible escapes. Sometime after his first mutiny on the Black Pearl, Barbossa kept a capuchin monkey, which he named "Jack" after his old captain Jack Sparrow.
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Was Barbossa a better captain than Jack?

He makes steering the ship look difficult, while never making me doubt that he can do it. Barbossa is also a much more decisive leader than Jack Sparrow, whose magical compass that points to its holder's deepest desire can rarely maintain a direction.
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Why did Barbossa have a piece of eight?

Being given a Piece of Eight by one of the Pirate Lords is enough to make one a Pirate Lord, and thus Barbossa inherits the title of "Pirate Lord of the Caspian Sea", despite not having a ship to be captain of.
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Why is Jack Sparrow immortal?

Right before the film's climactic battle with the pirates at Isla de Muerta, Sparrow swipes a cursed coin from the treasure chest, making himself immortal and capable of dueling Barbossa. He shoots his nemesis with the pistol he has carried for ten years just as Will breaks the curse, killing Barbossa.
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Is Barbossa in Sea of Thieves?

Players can dress up as Barbossa with the Captain Barbossa Costume (Beard) and the Captain Barbossa Costume (No beard), included with the Captain Barbossa Costume Set bundle purchased from the Pirate Emporium.
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Is Barbossa Will Turner's dad?

Will learns that his father was the pirate "Bootstrap Bill" Turner, who served aboard the Black Pearl when it was commanded by Captain Jack Sparrow. Despite Sparrow's comments that Bootstrap was "a good man," Will remains deeply conflicted over the fact that his father was a pirate.
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Why does Barbossa have yellow eyes?

When asked about some of the characters' health, screenwriter Terry Rossio said the likeliest cause of the yellow eyes is jaundice, a close cousin to scurvy; or, in the case of pirate captains Hector Barbossa and Chevalle, both considered ladies men, hepetitis.
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Why was Barbossa holding an apple?

For the entirety of the first film, Barbossa keeps an apple upon his person, hoping it will be the first food he gets to taste when the curse is finally lifted.
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Why does Barbossa have one leg?

This peg leg was Hector Barbossa's replacement for the limb that was lost during Blackbeard's attack on the Black Pearl. Given to him during his time as a privateer, Barbossa's first peg leg was a removable wooden leg which contained a hidden rum supply.
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