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Petronilla Melusina von der Schulenburg, Countess of Walsingham, Countess of Chesterfield (1 April 1693 – 16 September 1778) was the natural daughter of King George I of Great Britain and his longtime mistress, Melusine von der Schulenburg, Duchess of Kendal.
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Petronilla Melusina von der Schulenburg (Hanôver, 1 de abril...
- Petronilla Melusina von der Schulenburg
Petronella Ottilie von Schwencken. Ehrengard Melusine von der Schulenburg ( Emden, 25 de dezembro de 1667 — Kendal House, 10 de maio de 1743) foi uma nobre alemã, mais conhecida como amante do rei Jorge I da Grã-Bretanha .
Petronella Melusina von der Schulenburg, Countess of Walsingham (* 1. April 1693 in Hannover; † 16. September 1778 in London) war eine deutsch - britische Adlige . Leben.
- Early Life
- Arrival in Maryland
- Politics and Marriage
- Mount Airy Plantation
- American Revolution
- After The War
- Family Life
- Death and Legacy
- Gallery
- Ancestry
Calvert was born Benedict Swinket in England on January 27, 1722, the illegitimate son of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, proprietary governor of the Province of Maryland. His birth year has been variously given as 1724, 1730 and 1732, but the grave stone in the floor of the chancery of St. Thomas Episcopal Churchin Croom, Maryland gives the ...
In around 1736 or 1737, the young Benedict was sent to the Calverts' proprietary colony of Maryland, which in the mid 18th century was still a somewhat sparsely settled, largely rural society. In 1730 the population of Annapolis was just 776.The population of colony was 120,000 at the time. According to the letters of Rosalie Stier Calvert, Benedic...
Through his family connections Calvert was able to benefit from considerable proprietarial patronage, at least until the American Revolution in 1776 ended proprietarial rule in Maryland. In 1745 he was appointed by his father the Patuxentdistrict customs collector and naval officer, a post which permitted him to retain a portion of the customs fees...
In 1751 Calvert inherited a 4,000-acre (16 km2) plantation known as Mount Airy, originally a hunting lodge for his great-grandfather Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore, near Upper Marlboro in Prince George's County, Maryland, where he grew tobacco. Mount Airy was most likely a gift from his father, Lord Baltimore, who had ensured that Calvert wou...
As a member of the Maryland political establishment, Calvert was a Loyalist, and he soon found himself on the losing side of the Revolutionary War, the consequences of which would effectively end his political career. The Annapolis Conventionof 1774 to 1776 would see the old Maryland elite overthrown, and Calvert, Eden and Steuart would all lose th...
After the war's end, Calvert had to pay triple taxes as did other Loyalists, but he was never forced to sign the loyalty oath and his lands and property remained unconfiscated. Calvert's Loyalism does not appear to have affected his cordial relations with the leader of the Revolution, George Washington. Most likely this was because of the marriage ...
Benedict and Elizabeth Calvert had thirteen children, many of whom died in childhood or infancy: 1. Rebecca Calvert (born December 25, 1749) 2. Charles Calvert (1756–1777), who was sent to be educated in England at Eton Collegeand died young and unmarried. 3. Eleanor Calvert (1757/1758–1811), who on February 3, 1774, married John Parke Custis (1754...
Benedict Swingate Calvert died at Mount Airy on January 9, 1788. He was buried beneath the chancel of the church of St Thomas in Croom, Prince George's County, Maryland, a church which Calvert had helped to found and maintain. Calvert's descendants continued to live at the Mount Airy plantation house until the early 20th century. In 1973, it was ac...
Charles Calvert, eldest son of Benedict Swingate Calvert, painted by John Hesseliusin 1761Painting of Eleanor Calvert by John Hesselius, 1728–1778, c.1761Miniature of Eleanor Calvert (1758–1811), eldest surviving daughter of Benedict Swingate Calvert, c.1780.Miniature of Elizabeth Calvert (1760-1814), youngest daughter of Benedict Swingate Calvert, painted by Benjamin West.Modern archeology
The Calverts' house at 58 State Circle, Annapolis, was the subject of an archaeological dig in the 1980s and early 1990s. The results of the dig, along with much other research, were published in 1994 by Anne Elizabeth Yentsch in her book A Chesapeake Family and their Slaves, published by Cambridge University Press. The excavation of the Calvert House was financed by Historic Annapolis Inc, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and other institutions.
Petronella Melusina von der Schulenburg (* 1. April 1693; † 16. September 1778), Countess of Walsingham, Ehefrau von Philip Stanhope, 4. Earl of Chesterfield; Margarethe Gertrud (* 1701; † 1728), Gräfin von Oeynhausen, Ehefrau von Albrecht Wolfgang Graf zu Schaumburg-Lippe; Mutter von Graf Wilhelm
Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Schulenburg, Ehrengard Melusina von der (1667–1743)Duchess of Kendal and influential paramour of George I. Name variations: Ehrengard Melusine von der Schulemburg; Ermengarde Melusina von der Schulenburg, baroness Schulenburg; duchess of Munster; known as Melusine.
