Lord George CALVERT

1579 - 1632  (53 years)

• Name	George CALVERT
  Prefix	Lord
  Born	1579	Danby Wiske, Yorkshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Baptism	22 Nov 1579	Kiplin, Yorkshire, England
  Education	Oxford
  Migration	1628	Avalon, Newfoundland, Canada
  Noteworthy	Lord Baltimore under James I, Founder of Maryland
  Occupation	1st Lord Baltimore
  Religion	Catholic
  Immigrant?	Y
  Died	15 Apr 1632	London, London, England
  Buried	St Dunstan in the West Burial Ground, London, London, England   [1]
  Person ID	I10508	Main
  Last Modified	24 Nov 2023

  
  

  Father	Leonard CALVERT,   b. 23 Aug 1550, Danby Wiske, Yorkshire, England ,   d. Abt 1611, Danby Wiske, Yorkshire, England  (Age 60 years)
  Mother	Alicia Grace CROSSLAND,   b. 20 Aug 1552, Crossland Hill, Yorkshire, England ,   d. 28 Nov 1587, Danby Wiske, Yorkshire, England  (Age 35 years)
  Married	1575	Herstmonceux Castle, Sussex, England
  Family ID	F11267	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anne MYNNE,   b. 20 Nov 1579, Bexley, Hertfordshire, England ,   d. 8 Aug 1622, Hertfordshire, England  (Age 42 years)
  Married	22 Nov 1604	St Peters, Cornhill, London, England
  Children	1. Lord Cecilius CALVERT,   b. 8 Aug 1605, Kent, England ,   d. 30 Nov 1675, London, Middlesex, England  (Age 70 years)   2. Anne CALVERT,   b. 1 Apr 1607, Fields, London, Middlesex, England ,   d. 1672, Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts  (Age 64 years)   3. Dorothy CALVERT,   b. 18 Aug 1608, Fields, London, Middlesex, England ,   d. England   4. Elizabeth CALVERT,   b. 18 Nov 1609, London, Middlesex, England ,   d. ?, England + 5. Gov Leonard CALVERT,   b. 21 Nov 1610, London, Middlesex, England ,   d. 9 Jun 1647, St Marys County, Maryland  (Age 36 years)   6. Francis CALVERT,   b. 1612, Fields, London, Middlesex, England ,   d. ?, England   7. Grace CALVERT,   b. 5 Feb 1612, London, Middlesex, England ,   d. ?, England   8. George CALVERT,   b. 8 Jul 1613, Fields, London, Middlesex, England ,   d. ?, England   9. Helen CALVERT,   b. 1615, Fields, London, Middlesex, England ,   d. ?, England   10. Henry CALVERT,   b. 8 Mar 1618, London, Middlesex, England ,   d. ?, England   11. John CALVERT,   b. 31 Jan 1619, London, Middlesex, England ,   d. ?, England   12. Mary CALVERT,   b. 1620, Fields, London, Middlesex, England ,   d. ?, England   13. Philip CALVERT,   b. 1622, Fields, London, Middlesex, England ,   d. 13 Dec 1682, Maryland  (Age 60 years)
  Last Modified	17 Mar 2020
  Family ID	F3599	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Born - 1579 - Danby Wiske, Yorkshire, England Died - 15 Apr 1632 - London, London, England  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore (1579 – 15 April 1632) was an English politician and coloniser. He achieved domestic political success as a Member of Parliament and later Secretary of State under King James I, though he lost much of his political power after his support for a failed marriage alliance between Prince Charles and the Spanish 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 granted the title of 1st Baron Baltimore in the Irish peerage upon his resignation. Calvert took an interest in the colonisation of the New World, at first for commercial reasons and later to create a refuge for English Catholics. He became the proprietor of Avalon, the first sustained English settlement on the island of Newfoundland. Discouraged by the climate and the sufferings of the settlers there, Calvert looked for a more suitable spot further south and sought a new royal charter to settle the region that was to 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 Cæcilius. His son Leonard Calvert was the first colonial governor of Maryland. Historians have long recognized George Calvert as the founder of Maryland, in spirit if not in fact. In 1613, the king commissioned Calvert to investigate Catholic grievances in Ireland, along with Sir Humphrey Wynch, Sir Charles Cornwallis, and Sir Roger Wilbraham. The commission spent almost four months in Ireland, and its final report, partly drafted by Calvert, concluded that conformity should be enforced more strictly in Ireland, Catholic schools be suppressed, and bad priests removed and punished. Calvert had long maintained an interest in the exploration and settlement of the New World, beginning with his investment of twenty-five pounds in the second Virginia Company in 1609, and a few months later a more substantial sum in the East India Company which he increased in 1614. In 1620, Calvert purchased a tract of land in Newfoundland from Sir William Vaughan, who had failed to establish a colony on the island. He named it Avalon, after the legendary spot where Christianity was introduced to Britain. The plantation lay on what is now called the Avalon Peninsula[50] and included the fishing station at Ferryland. Calvert almost certainly had a fishery project in mind at this stage. Newfoundland winters proved too harsh, so Calvert sent his children back to England then took his new wife and servants to Jamestown, VA. In late September or October 1629, Baltimore arrived in Jamestown, where the Virginians, who suspected him of designs on some of their territory and vehemently opposed Catholicism, gave him a cool welcome and tendered him the oaths of supremacy and allegiance, which he refused to take—upon which they ordered him to leave. After no more than a few weeks in the colony, Baltimore left for England to pursue the new charter, unaccountably leaving his wife and servants behind. In early 1630, he procured a ship to fetch them, but it foundered off the Irish coast, and his wife was drowned. Baltimore described himself the following year as "a long time myself a Man of Sorrows".«s76 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Calvert,_1st_Baron_Baltimore»

  
  

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