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Cecilius Calvert, 2.º Barón de Baltimore o Lord Baltimore (8 de agosto de 1605 – 30 de noviembre de 1675), por lo general llamado Cecil, fue el colonizador inglés que fue el primer propietario de la Colonia de Maryland en América del Norte.
Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore (8 August 1605 – 30 November 1675) was an English politician, peer and lawyer who was the first proprietor of Maryland. Born in Kent in 1605, he inherited the proprietorship after the death of his father, George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, for whom it had been intended.
His son, Cecilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, almost immediately succeeded to the grant and resolved to establish a colony where his fellow Roman Catholics could find peace. Early in 1634 the first shipload of Roman Catholic settlers chose a site at St. Marys on a tributary of…
Cecil Calvert, segundo barón de Baltimore (8 de agosto de 1605 - 30 de noviembre de 1675), también conocido como Cecilius Calvert, fue un noble inglés, que fue el primer propietario de la Provincia de Maryland, noveno Gobernador Propietario de la Colonia de Terranova, y segundo de la colonia de la Provincia de Avalon al sureste.
De su padre George Calvert, Cecil Calvert heredó el título de Lord Baltimore y la carta del rey Carlos I para establecer una colonia en la Provincia de Maryland, que comprende de diez a doce millones de acres de tierra en lo que hoy es el estado de Maryland.
Cecil (or Cecilius in Latin) Calvert was still a young man of 26 years when his father, George Calvert, Lord Baltimore, died in 1632. Upon his father's death, Cecil became the Second Baron of Baltimore and inherited the colonies and lands owned by his father.
18 de may. de 2018 · Royal servant, MP, and secretary of state from 1619 to 1625, Calvert relinquished office when he openly declared his conversion to catholicism. He shared with his catholic father-in-law, Lord Arundell of Wardour, a wish for an American lordship, beginning a settlement at Ferryland, in his short-lived Province of Avalon, in Newfoundland.
