Barbarossa Kairuddeen

Barbarossa, Kair-ud-deen, brother and successor of the foregoing in the kingdom of Algiers, was employed by the Sultan Selim II. as naval commander. He captured Tunis, but in 1536 was driven out of N. Africa by the Emperor Charles V. He then harried the coasts of Italy for some years, and subjected Yemen to Ottoman rule, dying at Constantinople in 1546.