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11 unusual facts about Charles Calvert


Caroline Eden

Caroline Eden (née Caroline Calvert) was the daughter of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, sister of Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore.

Chaptico, Maryland

"Chaptico" may be Algonquian for "big-broad-river-it-is" and related to the friendly Chaptico tribe visited by Gov. Charles Calvert in 1663.

Charles Calvert

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

Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore (1637–1715), second Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland

Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore

Unfortunately Talbot proved to be a poor choice, stabbing to death a Royal customs official on board his ship in the Patuxent River, and thereby ensuring that his uncle suffered immediate difficulties on his return to London.

Chevy Chase, Maryland

Its name in turn, according to the Village of Chevy Chase's official history, can be traced to the larger tract of land called "Cheivy Chace" that was patented to Colonel Joseph Belt from Lord Baltimore on July 10, 1725.

Melusina von der Schulenburg, Countess of Walsingham

The couple had no children, but it is possible that she may have been the mother, through an intimacy with Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, of Benedict Swingate Calvert.

Riverdale Park, Maryland

Riversdale was given to their daughter, Rosalie, who married George Calvert, the grandson of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, in 1799.

The Sot-Weed Factor

A satirical epic set in the 1680s–90s in London and colonial Maryland, the novel tells of a fictionalized Ebenezer Cooke, who is given the title "Poet Laureate of Maryland" by Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore and commissioned to write a Marylandiad to sing the praises of the colony.

It tells the story of an English poet named Ebenezer Cooke who is given the title "Poet Laureate of Maryland" by Charles Calvert.