The Calvert Family Crest

The founders of Maryland were two brothers, Cecil Calvert, Second Baron Baltimore, of Baltimore, Ireland, and Leonard Calvert, employed by his brother to be first Proprietary Governor of the young colony. Their father, having gained the full confidence of King Charles I., rose from an humble origin to the rank of Irish Peer and Privy Councillor, an office in which he maintained even after his transfering his religious allegiance to the Roman Church. The promised grant of concession was signed in 1632, and the province named in honor of Queen Henrietta Maria, daughter of the good French King, Henry IV. The fifth baron returned to the Established Church, and the Seventh Lord Baltimore, dying at Naples in 1771, without issue, the title became extinct.

Family

Calvert

Motto

Fatti maschi. Parole femine.Deeds are males, words are females.

Blazon

Out Of A Ducal Coronet, Or, Two Staves, With Pennons Flying To The Dexter Side: The Dexter, Or; The Sinister, Sable.

Source

America Hereldica