Anne Calvert, Baroness Baltimore (née Hon. Anne Arundell; c. 1615/1616G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 394. retrieved from – 23 July 1649) was an

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noblewoman, the daughter of

Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour (c. 15607 November 1639) was the eldest son of Matthew Arundell, Sir Matthew Arundell of Wardour Castle in Wiltshire (ca. 1532/1534 – 24 December 1598), and Margaret Willoughby, the daughter of Sir ...

by his second wife Anne Philipson,L. G. Pine, The New Extinct Peerage 1884-1971: Containing Extinct, Abeyant, Dormant and Suspended Peerages With Genealogies and Arms (London, UK: Heraldry Today, 1972), page 9; retrieved from and wife of Lord Baltimore, who founded the

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colony.

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in the US state of

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was named for her. In addition,

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ship , an was in turn named after the county, serving from 1940 to 1970.

Family

She married Cecil Calvert, second Lord Baltimore. A settlement arrangement for the union was made on 20 March 1627/28. According to Gibbs, she is said to have been a most beautiful and accomplished woman. The marriage coincided with the groom's father Sir George Calvert, first Lord Baltimore, (1578-1632) embarking on his first colonial endeavor in Avalon, located in

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(of future eastern

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). Following the failure of the Avalon Colony, Cecil Calvert oversaw a second colonial enterprise in 1633, this time aimed at the

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area, north of the colony of

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. The new colony was named "

" after

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, the French-born consort of King Charles I. Four of the couple's nine children survived to adulthood.Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham. ''Magna Carta ancestry: a study in colonial and medieval families''. Genealogical Publishing Com, 2005, p. 169. *

Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore (August 27, 1637 – February 21, 1715), inherited the colony of Maryland in 1675 upon the death of his father, Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, (1605–1675). He had been his father's Deputy Governor sin ...

(b. 27 August 1637, died 21 February 1715) * Hon. Cecil Calvert * Hon. Georgiana Calvert (b. August 1629) * Hon. Mary CalvertGeorge Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume II, p. 188. (born 18 July 1630) * Hon. George Calvert (b. 15 September 1634 – d. Jun 1636) * Hon. Anne Calvert (born 9 October 1636 – died 6 May 1661) * Hon. Mary Calvert (b. 30 November 1638 – on or before 24 September 1671) * Hon. Elizabeth Calvert (born circa 1642 – died 16 January 1712) * Hon. Frances Calvert Lady Anne Arundell was buried at the St. John's Parish church in Tisbury,

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References

External links

Calvert Family Tree
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Daughters of barons

People from Arundel

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17th-century English women English Roman Catholics Date of birth unknown Anne Arundel County, Maryland Burials at Tisbury parish church, St John's