Anne Arundell

Anne Calvert, Baroness Baltimore was an English noblewoman, the daughter of Thomas Arundell, 1st [Baron Arundell of Wardour] by his second wife Anne Philipson, and wife of Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, who founded the Province of Maryland in 1634. She was also the namesake of Anne Arundel [County, Maryland], and the US Navy transport ship USS Anne Arundel, which was named after the county.
She was the mother of 9 children, including Charles Calvert, the future third Baron Baltimore and Lord Proprietor of the province of Maryland, and died at the early age of 32-34 years.

Family

She married Cecil Calvert, second Lord Baltimore. A settlement arrangement for the union was made on 20 March 1627/28. According to Gibbs, she is said to have been a most beautiful and accomplished woman. The marriage coincided with the groom's father Sir George Calvert, first Lord Baltimore, embarking on his first colonial endeavor in Avalon, located in Newfoundland. Following the failure of the Avalon Colony, Cecil Calvert oversaw a second colonial enterprise in 1633, this time aimed at the Chesapeake Bay area, north of the colony of Virginia. The new colony was named "Maryland" after Henrietta Maria, the French-born consort of King Charles I. Anne Arundel County, Maryland was named after her.
Four of the couple's nine children survived to adulthood.

Lady Baltimore was buried at the St. John's Parish church in Tisbury, Wiltshire in England.