Legacy
Upon his father's death, Charles' son Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore petitioned King George I for the restoration of his family's proprietarial title to Maryland. Unfortunately, before the king could rule on the petition, Benedict died, just two months after his father, passing on his title in turn to his son Charles. On May 15, 1715 Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore soon found himself, aged just sixteen, in the fortunate position of having had his family's proprietarial title to Maryland restored by the king. In 1721 he came of age and assumed personal control of the colony, which would remain under the control of the Calvert family until 1776. The younger Charles Calvert would also have to convert to Anglicanism in order to win back his family's province. The Calvert family's dream of a haven in the Americas for Roman Catholics was at an end, and it would take an American Revolution and the overthrow of the Calvert proprietary government to restore religious tolerance to Maryland.
Charles County, Maryland, was named after him.
Charles Calvert's portrait, along with those of the other Barons Baltimore, still hangs today in the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore, the city that bears his family name.
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