User blog comment:Rvb forever/Barbossa is No Longer a Pirate Lord/@comment-996391-20170303121037

I'm not sure. The Pirate Lords were more than just some guardians of the Pieces of Eight. They were the most notorious pirates of their time, and I doubt any of them would lose their status just because the Pieces of Eight don't exist anymore. The video game Pirates of the Caribbean: Call of the Kraken shows that the Pirate Lords existed before Calypso was trapped in her human form, so it's only logical that they still exist now that she's free.