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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 in 1675 upon the death of his father, Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore. He had been his father's Deputy Governor since 1661 when he arrived in the colony at the age of 24.
Calvert was born Charles Calvert Lazenby in England in 1688. [3] Neither of his parents has been positively identified but it may be that his father was Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, 2nd Proprietor Governor of Maryland (1637–1715), or another member of the Calvert family. [3]
The title was granted in 1625 to Sir George Calvert (1580–1632), and it became extinct in 1771 on the death of Frederick, 6th Baron Baltimore. [1] The title was held by six members/generations of the Calvert family, who were Lord proprietors of the palatinates Province of Avalon in Newfoundland and Maryland Palatinate (later the Province of Maryland and subsequent American State of Maryland).
Charles Calvert may refer to: Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore (1637–1715), Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland; Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore (1699–1751), Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland; Charles Benedict Calvert (1808–1864), U.S. Congressman from the sixth district of Maryland
Leonard Calvert: 1634 1647 2 Thomas Greene: 1647 1649 3 William Stone: 1649 March 28, 1652 4 Rev. Robert Brook Sr. March 29, 1652 July 3, 1652 5 William Stone: July 4, 1652 1656 6 Lieutenant-General Josias Fendall: 1657 1660 7 Phillip Calvert: 1660 1660 8 Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore: 1661 1676 9 Jesse Wharton: 1676 1676 10 Thomas ...
Documentary evidence identifies the site as Mattapany-Sewall, a manor established in 1663 and occupied from 1666 to 1684 by Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore. It served as a governmental meeting place and colonial arsenal, and was the scene of the 1689 battle, known as the Protestant Revolution of 1689, in which Maryland's Proprietary ...
Charles Calvert, the 3rd Lord Baltimore, died in 1715, and William Penn died in 1718. Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore died just two months after his father, so the boundary dispute was carried forth by Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore on Maryland's side, and by Penn's children John, Thomas, and Richard on the Pennsylvania side.
The Province of Maryland was a proprietary colony, in the hands of the Calvert family, who held it from 1633 to 1689, and again from 1715 to 1776. George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore (1580–1632) is often regarded as the founder of Maryland, but he died before the colony could be organized. The Province of Maryland.