Person:George Calvert (7)

George Calvert, 1st Lord Baltimore
m. 15 Dec 1575
  1. George Calvert, 1st Lord BaltimoreBet 1579 & 1580 - 1632
  2. Christopher CalvertAbt 1580 -
  3. Mary CalvertAbt 1586 -
  4. John CalvertAbt 1587 -
  • HGeorge Calvert, 1st Lord BaltimoreBet 1579 & 1580 - 1632
  • WAnne Mynne - 1621
m. 22 Nov 1604
  1. Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore1605 - 1675
  2. Anne CalvertAbt 1607 - Aft 1672
  3. Dorothy Calvert1608 - 1621/22
  4. Elizabeth Calvert1609 - Abt 1630
  5. Grace Calvert1609/10 - 1672
  6. Leonard Calvert1610 - 1647
  7. Francis CalvertAbt 1612 - Aft 1625/26
  8. George Calvert1613 - Abt 1634
  9. Helen Ellin CalvertAbt 1615 -
  10. Henry Calvert1615/16 - Bef 1635
  11. John CalvertAbt 1618 - 1617/18
  • HGeorge Calvert, 1st Lord BaltimoreBet 1579 & 1580 - 1632
  • WUnknown Spouse
m. Bef 1626
  1. Philip Calvert1626 - 1682
Facts and Events
Name George Calvert, 1st Lord Baltimore
Gender Male
Birth? Bet 1579 and 1580 Danby-Wiske, Yorkshire, England"of Danby Wiske"
Marriage 22 Nov 1604 St. Peter Cornhill, City of London, Middlesex, Englandto Anne Mynne
Marriage Bef 1626 to Unknown Spouse
Death? 12 Apr 1632 London, Middlesex, England
Burial[2] 15 Apr 1632 St. Dunstan in the East, City of London, Middlesex, England
Alt Burial[2] 15 Apr 1632 St. Dunstan in the West, City of London, Middlesex, England
Reference Number? Q335412?


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George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore (; 1580 – 15 April 1632), was an English politician and colonial administrator. He achieved domestic political success as a member of parliament and later Secretary of State under King James I. He lost much of his political power after his support for a failed marriage alliance between Prince Charles and the Spanish House of Habsburg royal family. Rather than continue in politics, he resigned all of his political offices in 1625 except for his position on the Privy Council and declared his Catholicism publicly. He was created Baron Baltimore in the Peerage of Ireland upon his resignation. Baltimore Manor was located in County Longford, Ireland.

Calvert took an interest in the British colonisation of the Americas, at first for commercial reasons and later to create a refuge for persecuted Irish and English Catholics. He became the proprietor of Avalon, the first sustained English settlement on the southeastern peninsula on the island of Newfoundland (off the eastern coast of modern Canada). Discouraged by its cold and sometimes inhospitable climate and the sufferings of the settlers, he looked for a more suitable spot further south and sought a new royal charter to settle the region, which would become the state of Maryland. Calvert died five weeks before the new Charter was sealed, leaving the settlement of the Maryland colony to his son Cecil (1605–1675). His second son Leonard Calvert (1606–1647) was the first colonial governor of the Province of Maryland.

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George may have given his own pedigree to the heralds, or a herald may have compiled it. It appears in the 1612 Visitation report, but may be a later addition, as the date 1619 is mentioned. It isn't signed, unlike the other pedigrees collected in 1612. His mother is named as "Alice, daughter of John Crosland of Crosland". But no other trace of Alice or John seems to be known. They do not appear in pedigrees of the Crosland family of Crosland-hill.

George obtained his own grant of arms. The grant makes no mention of his parents. Later he, or his son and heir Cecil, quartered the arms of Crosland, of Crosland-hill - the arms of George's stepmother Grace. The quartered arms became part of the Maryland state seal, and later, the state flag. This makes the identity of George's mother highly political, and makes it difficult for some Americans to contemplate the possibility that perhaps the Calverts had no valid claim to quarter Crosland (notwithstanding that the assumption of invalid arms and quarterings was common in England).

References
  1.   Foster, Joseph, ed. Visitations of Yorkshire 1584-84 and 1612: by Robert Glover and Sir Richard St. George. (1875)
    Page 500.
  2. 2.0 2.1 citation needed for burial