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Trajan_pt

Who is the person that has been ransomed the most times in history?

In warfare, it seems like the upper classes were often targeted for capture for the purposes of ransom. Presumably, an aristocrat that was expected to be in the thick of it could have been captured multiple times.

So who holds the record for most times captured and ransomed?

Posted Jul 8, 2026, 12:07 PM UTC

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