Anne Dieu-le-Veut

Anne "Dieu-Le-Veut" de Graaf[1] also called Marie-Anne or Marianne (28 August 1661 – 11 January 1710)[2] was a French pirate.

She reportedly arrived on Tortuga during the reign of Bertrand d'Ogeron de la Bouëre, who was governor of the island in 1665-1668 and 1669–1675.

[6] [note 1] According to the traditional description of the event, Anne challenged de Graaf to a duel to avenge the death of her late spouse.

During her marriage she had two children, a daughter, Marie Catherine de Graff (1694-1743) and a son who died as a child (1700-1705).

Anne Dieu-Le-Veut is known as a pirate, supposedly accompanying her husband Laurens de Graaf on his acts of piracy.

However, the pirates were outnumbered, and they were all captured and taken first to Veracruz in Mexico, and then to Cartagena in Colombia, both of which were cities earlier sacked by Laurens, to be judged.

Anne's fame was so great that when the French Marine Secretary of Pontchartrain heard of this, he wrote to Louis XIV of France and asked him to make the king of Spain intervene.