Anne Dieu-le-Veut
Much of Anne Dieu-le-Veut’s real life has become obscured by legends, but she was a real person who was deported from France to Tortuga as a criminal before engaging in piracy. It’s believed that Dieu-le-Veut demanded a duel from the pirate Laurens de Graaf, but he refused, and instead ended up marrying her.