Editing Dread Pirate Roberts (section)

{{short description|Character in The Princess Bride, created 1973}}
{{about|the fictional pirate|the owner of the Silk Road marketplace|Ross Ulbricht}}
{{Infobox character
| name        = Dread Pirate Roberts
| series      = The Princess Bride
| first       = ''[[The Princess Bride (novel)|The Princess Bride]]''
| creator     = [[William Goldman]]
| portrayer   = [[Cary Elwes]]
| species     = Human
| gender      = Male
| occupation  = Pirate
| nationality = Florin, and others
}}
The '''Dread Pirate Roberts''' is the identity assumed by several characters in the novel ''[[The Princess Bride (novel)|The Princess Bride]]'' (1973) and its 1987 [[The Princess Bride (film)|film adaptation]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Everything Pirates Book: A Swashbuckling History of Adventure|page= 228|author= Barbara Karg|author2= Arjean Spaite|name-list-style= amp|date= 2007}}</ref> Various pirates (including Westley) take on the role of Roberts and use his reputation to intimidate their opponents, before retiring and secretly passing on the name to someone else.