یعقوب آغا بارباروس کے بھائی اور عروج بارباروسا اور خیر الدین بارباروس کے والد تھے۔ [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] وہ گیانیتسا یونانی شہر سے تعلق رکھنے والا ترک یا البانوی نسل کا سپاہی تھا۔یعقوب ان لوگوں میں شامل تھا جنھوں نے 1462 میں عثمانیوں کی جانب سے جینوس سے ایجیئن جزیرے لیسبوس پر قبضہ کرنے میں حصہ لیا تھا۔ اس کی شرکت کے لیے اسے جزیرے کے بونووا گاؤں کی فیف انعام کے طور پر عطا کی گئی تھی اور اس گاؤں کا لقب اسے دیا گیا تھا۔ آغا (ماسٹر)۔
↑......Ottoman admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa (son of a Turkish sipahi [fief-holder in the cavalry service]) from Yenice-i Vardar in Macedonia and a Greek woman from Lesvos/Mytilini..., Machiel Kiel, "The Smaller Aegean Island in the 16th-18th Centuries According to Ottoman Administrative Documents" in Siriol Davies, Jack L. Davis, Between Venice and Istanbul: Colonial Landscapes in Early Modern Greece, ASCSA, 2007, آئی ایس بی این978-0-87661-540-9, p. 36.
↑İsmail Hâmi Danişmend, Osmanlı Devlet Erkânı, pp. 172 ff. Türkiye Yayınevi (Istanbul), 1971.
↑Khiḍr was one of four sons of a Turk from the island of Lesbos., "Barbarossa", Encyclopædia Britannica, 1963, p. 147.
↑Alan G. Jamieson (2013)۔ Lords of the Sea: A History of the Barbary Corsairs۔ Canada: Reaktion Books۔ صفحہ: 59۔ ISBN978-1861899460۔ Desperate to find some explanation for the sudden resurgence of Muslim sea power in the Mediterranean after centuries of Christian dominance, Christian commentators in the sixth century (and later) pointed to the supposed Christian roots of the greatest Barbary corsair commanders. It was a strange kind of comfort. The Barbarossas certainly had a Greek Christian mother, but it now seems certain their father was a Muslim Turk.
↑Bent Holm، Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen (2021)۔ Imagined, Embodied and Actual Turks in Early Modern Europe (بزبان انگریزی)۔ Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag۔ صفحہ: 16۔ ISBN978-3-99012-125-2۔ Hisir was the later Ottoman Chief Admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa. His profile almost exactly matches that of the numerous anonymous Christian and convert sailors just mentioned. His mother was Greek, and his father was a convert from the Albanian lands who had fought in the Sultan's armies.
↑Encyclopædia Britannica, Vol 1, Encyclopædia Britannica, 1972, p. 147.