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Hace 4 días · George Calvert Collection Fifty paintings and drawings of George Calvert are featured on 4th floor and in Old North building. Mr. Calvert was a professor of fine arts at Northeastern University and Southwestern University.
Hace 3 días · The founding proprietor of the Province of Avalon, George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, intended that it should serve as a refuge for his persecuted Roman Catholic co-religionists. But like his other colony in the Province of Maryland on the American mainland, it soon passed
Hace 4 días · George Calvert, Lord Baltimore, secretary of state to James the First, and a noble author , had a country-seat at Isleworth. Lord Strafford, writing to him on the 12th of October 1624, says, he takes it for granted that he has quitted Isleworth at that season of the year, and is gone to town (fn. 81) .
Hace 10 horas · As one of the original Thirteen Colonies, Maryland was founded by George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, a Catholic convert who sought to provide a religious haven for Catholics persecuted in England. In 1632, Charles I of England granted Lord Baltimore a colonial charter , naming the colony after his wife, Henrietta Maria. [18]
Hace 4 días · In 1632, King Charles I of England granted George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, settlement rights to lands between the 40th parallel and the south bank of the Potomac. Calvert died before the papers were complete, and the charter passed to his son Cecilius (Cecil) Calvert, 2d Baron Baltimore.
Hace 5 días · Wealthy landowner George Calvert, also known as Lord Baltimore, was given royal charter for a tract of land in the New World by Charles I, and named it for the king's wife. Although Calvert died soon after the arrangement was made, his son, Cecilius, took over the charter, and established the colony as a haven for Catholics.
Hace 4 días · The official name of the colony, Maryland, is said to be named in honor of Queen Henrietta Maria. However, some Catholic scholars believe that founder George Calvert named the province after Mary, the mother of Jesus. The name in the charter was phrased “Terra Mariae,” anglice, Maryland.
