Barbara Villiers

Family/Spouse: Charles II King of England. Charles (son of Charles I King of England and Henrietta Marie Princess of France) was born on 29 May 1630 in St. James's Palace, St. James's, London, London, England; died on 6 Feb 1685. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Charlotte married Edward Henry Lee in 1676. Edward (son of Francis Henry Lee and Lady Elizabeth Pope) was born on 4 Feb 1663 in Spelsbury, Oxfordshire, England; died on 14 Jul 1716 in Greenwich, Greater London, London, England; was buried in Spelsbury, West Oxfordshire District, Oxfordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Charlotte Lee, Lady Baltimore
Born 13 March 1678 (Old Style); 23 March 1678 (New Style)
St. James's Park, St. James, London, England
Died 22 January 1721 (Old Style); 1 February 1721 (New Style)
Woodford Hall, Woodford, Essex, England
Spouse(s)Benedict Leonard Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore, Christopher Crowe
Issue
Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore
Hon. Benedict Leonard Calvert, Governor of Maryland
Hon. Edward Henry Calvert
Hon. Charlotte Calvert
Hon. Jane Calvert
Hon. Cecil Calvert
Christopher Crowe
Catherine Crowe
Charlotte Crowe
George Crowe
Father
Edward Henry Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield
Mother
Lady Charlotte Fitzroy
ReligionAnglican
Charlotte Lee, Lady Baltimore (13 March 1678 Old Style – 22 January 1721 Old Style), was an English noblewoman, and granddaughter of King Charles II of England and his mistress Barbara Villiers. She married in 1699, Benedict Leonard Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore, from whom she separated in 1705; she later married Christopher Crowe. She was the mother of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, and of Benedict Leonard Calvert, who was Governor of Maryland from 1727–1731.

Early life
Lady Charlotte Lee was born on 13 March 1678 at St. James's Park, St. James, London.[2] She was the eldest of at least fourteen children of Edward Henry Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield (4 February 1663 – 14 July 1716) and Lady Charlotte Fitzroy (5 September 1664 – 17 February 1718), illegitimate daughter of King Charles II by his mistress Barbara Villiers, Countess of Castlemaine, Duchess of Cleveland. Lady Charlotte's mother was fourteen years old at the time of her birth, having married the Earl of Lichfield at the age of thirteen. Her father was also only fifteen at the time of her birth. Her paternal grandparents were Sir Francis Henry Lee of Ditchley, 4th Baronet of Quarendon and Elizabeth Pope, daughter of Thomas Pope, 2nd Earl of Downe.

Marriage to Lord Baltimore
Charlotte Lee's first husband, Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore
On 2 January 1699, at the age of twenty, she married her first husband Benedict Leonard Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore (21 March 1679 – 16 April 1715), son of Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore and Jane Lowe. Charlotte assumed the title of Lady Baltimore in February 1715, when her husband succeeded to the title of 4th Baron Baltimore upon the death of his father, the third Baron. The title of Proprietary Governor of the Province of Maryland had been lost to the third Baron during the Glorious Revolution and would be restored to Charles Calvert, the son of Charlotte and Benedict, upon the latter's death on 16 April 1715.

Charlotte and Lord Baltimore had six children:

Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, 18th Proprietor Governor of Maryland, FRS (29 September 1699 – 24 April 1751), married Mary Janssen, daughter of Sir Theodore Janssen, 1st Baronet Janssen and Williamsa Henley,[4] by whom he had three children, including Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore, Louisa Calvert, and Caroline Calvert. He also had an illegitimate son, by the name of Benedict Swingate Calvert, who settled in Maryland, and married Elizabeth Calvert, by whom he had issue.

Hon. Benedict Leonard Calvert, Governor of Maryland, (1727–1731). He died 1 June 1732 on his passage home to England.

Hon. Edward Henry Calvert (born ca. 1700), held office of Commissary General and President of the council of Maryland, was married without issue.

Hon. Charlotte Calvert (died December 1744), married Thomas Breerwood, by whom she had a son, Francis Breerwood.

Hon. Jane Calvert (died July 1778), married John Hyde, by whom she had issue John Hyde, Henry Hyde and Mary Calvert Hyde, wife of George Mitchell and mother of George Calvert Mitchell, 1st Earl of Royalton.

Hon. Cecil Calvert (born 1702)
Charlotte and Lord Baltimore were divorced in 1705. Charlotte had an affair in 1706 with Colonel Robert Fielding, then the (bigamous) husband of her grandmother the Duchess of Cleveland, and was rumoured to have borne a child by him, born 23 April 1707.

Marriage to Christopher Crowe
She married her second husband Christopher Crowe (c.1681 – 9 November 1749), Consul at Leghorn, sometime before 10 December 1719. Charlotte was three years older than her husband. This marriage produced four more children.

Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, was the eldest son of Charlotte Lee and her first husband, Benedict Leonard Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore.

Charlotte's four children from her second marriage:
Christopher Crowe (1716–1776), married Barbara Duncombe
Catherine Crowe (1717 – ?), married Roger Henry Gale
Charlotte Crowe (1718–1742)
George Crowe (25 November 1719 – 10 October 1782), married Anne Swift, by whom he had a son Robert.

Death and legacy
Charlotte Lee died of rheumatism on 22 January 1721 at Woodford Hall, Woodford, Essex. She was buried at Woodford on 29 January 1721. She died intestate and her estate was administered on 4 March 1721 at Woodford Hall.

Ancestors of Charlotte Lee, Lady Baltimore:
Sir Henry Lee, 1st Baronet
Francis Henry Lee, 2nd Baronet
Eleanor Wortley
Sir Francis Henry Lee, 4th Baronet of Quarendon
Sir John St. John, 1st Baronet
Anne St. John
Anne Leighton
Edward Henry Lee, 1st Earl of Lichfield
Sir William Pope
Thomas Pope, 2nd Earl of Downe
Elizabeth Watson
Elizabeth Pope
John Dutton
Lucy Dutton
Elizabeth Baynton
Charlotte Lee
James I of England
Charles I of England
Anne of Denmark
Charles II of England
Henri IV of France
Henrietta Maria of France
Marie de Medici
Lady Charlotte Fitzroy
Sir Edward Villiers
William Villiers, 2nd Viscount Grandison
Barbara St. John
Barbara Villiers
Paul Bayning, 1st Viscount Bayning
Mary Bayning
Anne Glemham

Charlotte married Benedict Leonard Calvert on 2 Jun 1698. Benedict was born on 21 Mar 1679 in Pebworth, Worcestershire, Herefordshire and Worcester, England; died on 16 Apr 1715 in Epsom, Surrey, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Petronilla Melusina Von Der Schulenberg, Countess of Walsingham. Petronilla was born on 13 Apr 1693 in Ramstedt, Schleswig Holstein, Germany; died on 16 Sep 1778 in Isleworth, London Borough of Hounslow, Greater London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Died:
At sea

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Illegitimate son of Charles Calvert, 5th Lord Baltimore and Melusina von der Schulenberg.

Benedict married Elizabeth Butler Calvert on 21 Apr 1748 in St. Anne's Episcopal Church, Church Circle, Annapolis, Maryland, USA. Elizabeth was born on 24 Feb 1730 in St Annes Parish, Prince Georges, Maryland, USA; died on 7 Jul 1798 in Mount Airy Plantation, Prince Georges, Maryland, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1782, , Fairfax, Virginia, USA

Eleanor married John Parke Custis on 3 Feb 1774 in Mount Airy Plantation, Prince Georges, Maryland, USA. John (son of Daniel Parke Custis and Martha Dandridge) was born on 27 Nov 1754 in New Kent, New Kent, Virginia, USA; died on 5 Nov 1781 in Eltham, New Kent, Virginia, USA; was buried in Mount Vernon, Fairfax, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Eleanor married Dr. David Stuart in 1783 in Alexandria, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA. Dr. was born on 3 Aug 1753 in Cedar Grove, King George, Virginia, USA; died in 1810 in Stuart Hope Park, Fairfax, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1840, Alexandria, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA
• Residence: 1850, Alexandria, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA

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Born at Mount Airy, Maryland, to John Parke Custis and Eleanor Calvert Custis. He was the grandson of Martha Washington by her first marriage to Daniel Parke Custis. After his natural father John Parke Custis died in 1781, he and his sister Eleanor were unofficially adopted by General and Mrs. Washington and raised at Mt. Vernon. Known by the childhood nickname Tub, Custis became very attached to his step-grandfather, George Washington. Under Washington’s counsel he pursued studies at St. John's College and Princeton. Upon Washington’s death he devoted himself to literary and agricultural pursuits. In 1799 Custis was commissioned as a colonel in the Army and aide-de-camp to General Charles Pickney. Custis also volunteered in the defense of Washington, D.C. during the the War of 1812. In 1802, he began the construction of Arlington House on land he had inherited from his natural father. He married Mary Lee Fitzhugh in 1804, and they had four children, but only one, Mary Anna Randolph Custis, survived. His income derived from his inherited estates though he was a generally a poor manager and his properties were not very profitable. He devoted most of his time to painting, playwriting, music, oratory, and promoting the improvement of American agriculture. None of his endeavors were marked by great or lasting success. Regarding himself as the heir to the Washington tradition, Custis collected and displayed a large number of Mt. Vernon relics at Arlington House. He began writing a series of 'Recollections of Washington' in the ‘U.S. Gazette’ in 1826, and they were published in book form in 1860. His first play, ‘The Indian Prophecy’, was performed in the Chestnut Street Theater, Philadelphia, in 1830. He also wrote: ‘The Railroad’ and ‘Pocahontas’ in 1830; ‘North Point of Baltimore Defended’ in 1833; and ‘Eighth of January’ in 1834. Custis gave his daughter away at her wedding to Lt. Robert E. Lee, Sr. at Arlington House in 1831. Custis increasingly relied on his son-in-law, to handle his tangled business affairs. Until his death, Custis retained his rooms in the north wing of Arlington House which had also become home to his daughter’s family. He died there after a short illness in October 1857.

George married Mary Lee Fitzhugh on 7 Jul 1804 in Alexandria, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA. Mary (daughter of William Debnam Fitzhugh and Mary Anne Bolling Randolph) was born on 22 Apr 1788 in Arlington, Arlington, Virginia, USA; died on 23 Apr 1853 in Arlington, Arlington, Virginia, USA; was buried in Arlington, Arlington, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Married: 30 Jun 1831, Arlington, Middlesex, Massachusetts, USA

Mary married Robert Edward Lee on 30 Jun 1831 in Arlington House, Arlington, Virginia, USA. Robert (son of Henry Lee, III and Anne Hill Carter) was born on 19 Jan 1807 in Stratford, Westmoreland, Virginia, USA; died on 12 Oct 1870 in Lexington, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA; was buried in Lexington, Independent Cities, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]