Lord Baltimore

A page dedicated to the aristocratic founders of Maryland, The Calvert Family, the great men that held the title Lord Baltimore.

[Lord Baltimore @MDLordBaltimore]

Did you know, we have the Calvert family to thank for the University of Maryland?

Charles Benedict Calvert, great-grandson of Charles, 5th Baron Baltimore, in 1856 established a college dedicated to agriculture. Which still operates as UMD today.

[Lord Baltimore @MDLordBaltimore]

@Andy_Broughton1 Do you buy those frames, or are the custom made?

[Lord Baltimore @MDLordBaltimore]

@Andy_Broughton1 I love those frames!

[Lord Baltimore @MDLordBaltimore]

That makes his wife Mary Custis the great-great-great granddaughter of King George I.

[Lord Baltimore @MDLordBaltimore]

Fun fact: Robert E. Lee is related to the Calvert family through marriage to Mary Custis.

Mary’s grandmother was Eleanor Calvert.

Eleanor was the granddaughter of Charles, 5th Lord Baltimore and Petronilla, the illegitimate daughter of King George I.

[Lord Baltimore @MDLordBaltimore]

We need to bring back this imperialistic prideful support of Maryland. From our land, it's agriculture and waterways, to our commercial exploits that support Maryland prosperity. We shouldn't be deterred from promoting Maryland first and foremost.

[Lord Baltimore @MDLordBaltimore]

I want Maryland to go all out for the 400th anniversary in 2032 / 2034. This shouldn’t be a partisan concern.

[Lord Baltimore @MDLordBaltimore]

My political views in four flags

[Lord Baltimore @MDLordBaltimore]

Never forget, Maryland was explicitly created as a Catholic safe haven by the Calvert family.

[Lord Baltimore @MDLordBaltimore]

@Tristyn_Jones1 I spotted this sticker while in Halifax last weekend, and it filled me with so much hope.

[Lord Baltimore @MDLordBaltimore]

@_citizen25 @motorunc The closest we’ve ever seen was in Maryland as a proprietary colony. The Lord Baltimore literally had all power, and owned all land and received rent from each citizen.

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[Lord Baltimore @MDLordBaltimore]

@BuyEnglishMade @RusGarbageHuman @elonmusk @MadeInEngland Godspeed and good luck. I desperately have wanted to obtain the long dormant @LordBaltimore.

[Lord Baltimore @MDLordBaltimore]

@nonnullis02 @invitinghistory I wouldn’t call myself a master at all. It’s a lot of just learning as you go.

[Lord Baltimore @MDLordBaltimore]

@nonnullis02 @invitinghistory To a degree, using the documents that survive for the people that surrounded the Calvert’s. One of the best surviving records is the book The Trail of Lord Baltimore, which is the court record from his rape trial… Frederick Calvert kind of soured the title for a while.

[Lord Baltimore @MDLordBaltimore]

@nonnullis02 @invitinghistory The 6th Baron Baltimore, Frederick Calvert was a scoundrel, and whored around. He had a number of children, but none with his wife, so the title died out. I think the kids that did inherit didn’t feel any duty or responsibility to preserve anything.

[Lord Baltimore @MDLordBaltimore]

@nonnullis02 @invitinghistory Frederick revealed to the representative what he had left of the family documents were in a crate in their greenhouse. The state of Maryland had to buy the documents from the family, and what survived are in the archive in Baltimore.

[Lord Baltimore @MDLordBaltimore]

@nonnullis02 @invitinghistory Thank you for doing what you have for Louis! For the Calvert’s, what survives is by a miracle, in the 1880s Maryland was developing an historical society, and a member went to the visit Frederick Henry Harford, a Calvert descendant.

[Lord Baltimore @MDLordBaltimore]

@nonnullis02 @invitinghistory At least the primary sources still exist, even if they go untranslated. Many of the original Calvert documents from the Jacobean era to the Georgian were destroyed. Very few of them have survived, the few we have are thanks to Frederick Harford.

[Lord Baltimore @MDLordBaltimore]

@nonnullis02 @invitinghistory Truly. Primary documents like letters are one of the most humanizing ways to understand historical figures.