Sayyida (سيدة) is the Arabic honorific "lady, mistress." **Sayyida al-Hurra (1485-1561) — "the Free Lady"** — was the **last person in Islamic history to hold the title *al-Hurra* ("the female sovereign")**. **Queen of Tétouan in Morocco from 1515-1542** — she became **the most fearsome pirate of the western Mediterranean**, allied with the Ottoman corsair Barbarossa, controlling Mediterranean shipping while her counterpart Barbarossa ruled the eastern half. **Spaniards expelled from Andalusia in 1492 called her their avenger.**
Subject of the 2009 novel *The Last Standing Woman of Tétouan* by Vanessa Paloma.
Sayyida reduces to three — the number of Free Lady of Tétouan.