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    Baron Baltimore, of Baltimore, County Longford, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1625 and ended in 1771, upon the death of its...
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    Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (8 August 1605 – 30 November 1675) was an English politician and lawyer who was the first proprietor of Maryland. Born...
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    George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore (/ˈbɔːltɪmɔːr/; 1580 – 15 April 1632) was an English politician. He achieved domestic political success as a member...
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    Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore (August 27, 1637 – February 21, 1715) was an English colonial administrator. He inherited the province of Maryland...
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    Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, FRS (29 September 1699 – 24 April 1751) was an English politician and colonial administrator who served as the proprietary...
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  • Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (1605–1675), English peer Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore (1637–1715) Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore (1679–1715)...
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    6th Baron Baltimore (6 February 1731 – 4 September 1771), styled The Hon. Frederick Calvert until 1751, was an English peer and who was the last Baron Baltimore...
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    4th Baron Baltimore, from whom she separated in 1705; she later married Christopher Crowe. She was the mother of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, and...
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    Benedict Leonard Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore (21 March 1679 – 16 April 1715) was an English colonial administrator and politician who represented Harwich...
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    heraldic banner of arms of Cecil, 2nd Baron Baltimore. It consists of the arms of his father George, 1st Baron Baltimore (1579–1632), quartered with those...
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  • (1969) Baron Baltimore, an extinct title in the Peerage of Ireland: George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore (1580–1632) Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (Lord...
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    Palatinate, a proprietary palatinate granted to Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, whose father, George, had long sought to found a colony in the New...
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    relatives of the Barons Baltimore, who were the proprietors of the Maryland colony from its founding in 1634 through 1771. The Barons Baltimore were Catholic...
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    Baroness Baltimore (née Hon. Anne Arundell; c. 1615/1616 – 23 July 1649) was an English noblewoman, the daughter of Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell...
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    1st Baron Baltimore (1580–1632) is often regarded as the founder of Maryland, but he died before the colony could be organized. Baron Baltimore Loyalist...
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    took the title Barons Baltimore from Baltimore Manor, an English Plantation estate they were granted in County Longford, Ireland. Baltimore is an anglicization...
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    but a similar one was sent as a replacement by Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (1605-1675). This seal was used except for a period from 1692 to 1715...
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    5th Baron Baltimore, of Benedict Swingate Calvert. Calvert was born in England in around 1730–32, the illegitimate son of the 5th Baron Baltimore, while...
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  • 1758; the eldest — but illegitimate — son of Frederick Calvert 6th Baron Baltimore and his mistress Mrs. Hester Whelan. Harford inherited his father's...
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    Appointed as Provincial Governor of Maryland by Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore on 7 December 1731, he was dispatched to Colonial America in 1732....
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    original Thirteen Colonies, Maryland was founded by George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, a Catholic convert who sought to provide a religious haven for Catholics...
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    the land patented to Colonel Joseph Belt from Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, on July 10, 1725. It has historic associations with a 1388 chevauchée...
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    1st Baron Baltimore and his descendants intended it as a refuge for persecuted Catholics. Carroll supported Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, the...
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    during the American Revolution. He was the son of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, the third Proprietor Governor of Maryland (1699–1751). His mother's...
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    University, and University of Maryland, Baltimore County. The name "Baltimore" derives from Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (1605–1675), proprietor of the colonial-era...
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    Penn vs. Baltimore) was a long-running legal conflict between William Penn and his heirs on one side, and Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore and his...
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    Maryland was founded by Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore in 1634. Like his father George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, who had originated the efforts that...
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     1615/1616–1649), Lady Baltimore, a member of the ancient family of Arundells in Cornwall, England, and the wife of Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (1605–1675)...
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    The ancestral parents of the first Lord Baltimore, Sir George Calvert, the first Baron Baltimore (Lord Baltimore) who originally received the granting charter...
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  • Caroline Eden (category Daughters of barons)
    was the daughter of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, and sister of Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore. She married Sir Robert Eden, the last colonial...
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