Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
The Lady Baltimore | |
Birth Date: | /1616 |
Birth Place: | Old Wardour Castle, Tisbury, Wiltshire, Kingdom of England |
Death Date: | 23 July 1649 (aged 32–34) |
Death Place: | Old Wardour Castle, Tisbury, Wiltshire, England |
Spouse: | Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (1605-1675) |
Children: | 9, including title heir, Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore |
Parents: | Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour Anne Philipson, |
, (1605-1675), Lord Baltimore, Lord Proprietor of Province of Maryland; minted silver medallion, National Gallery of Art, (Washington, D.C.)]]Anne Calvert, Baroness Baltimore (née Hon. Anne Arundell; /1616[1] – 23 July 1649)[1] was an English noblewoman, the daughter of Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour[2] by his second wife Anne Philipson,[3] and wife of Lord Baltimore, who founded the Province of Maryland in 1632 // 1634, (third English / British colony of the Thirteen Colonies of the British Empire), namesake of Anne Arundel County in the U.S. state of Maryland. In addition, a United States Navy transport ship, an was in turn named after the Maryland county, serving three decades in the American Navy, from 1940 to 1970.
She was also the mother of 9 children, including of Charles Calvert, the young heir to the title and future third Baron Baltimore, / Lord Baltimore, and Lord Proprietor of the Province of Maryland, before she died at the early age of 32 - 34 years.
She married Cecil Calvert, second Lord Baltimore. A settlement arrangement for the union was made on 20 March 1627/28.[1] [3] According to Gibbs, she is said to have been a most beautiful and accomplished woman.[1] 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 Newfoundland (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 Chesapeake Bay area, north of the colony of Virginia. The new colony was named "Maryland" after Henrietta Maria, 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.[4]
Lady Baltimore was buried at the St. John's Parish church in Tisbury, Wiltshire in England.[1]