, (1605–1675), Lord Baltimore, Lord Proprietor of

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; minted silver medallion,

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, (Washington, D.C.) Anne Calvert, Baroness Baltimore (née Hon. Anne Arundell; /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 English noblewoman, the daughter of

Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (disambiguation) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the ...

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

Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (8 August 1605 – 30 November 1675) was an English politician and lawyer who was the first List of Proprietors of Maryland, proprietor of Maryland. Born in Kent, England in 1605, he inherited the proprietorsh ...

, who founded the

in 1634. She was also the namesake of

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, and the

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transport ship '' USS Anne Arundel'', that was named after the county. She was the mother of 9 children, including Charles Calvert, the future third Baron Baltimore and Lord Proprietor of the province of Maryland, and died at the early age of 32–34 years.

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 Canada). 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 "

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" after

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, the French-born consort of King Charles I. Anne Arundel County, Maryland was named after her. 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) was an English colonial administrator. He inherited the province of Maryland in 1675 upon the death of his father, Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore. He had been his ...

(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 Baltimore was buried at the St. John's Parish church in Tisbury,

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in England.

References

External links

Calvert Family Tree
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Daughters of barons

People from Arundel

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