• http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/WilliamCope.htm
• Sir William COPE of Grimsby and Hanwell, Knight
• Born: ABT 1450, Grimsbury, Northamptonshire, England
• Died: 7 Apr 1513, London, Middlesex, England
• Buried: Church of Banbury, Oxfordshire, England
• Father: Alexander COPE
• Mother: ¿?
• Married 1: Agnes HARCOURT ABT 1470, Grimsburg, Northamptonshire, England
• Children:
• 1. Stephen COPE of Denmede (m. Anne Saunders)
• Married 2: Jane SPENCER ABT 1495, Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, England
• Children:
• 2. Anthony COPE (Sir Knight) (See his Biography)
• 3. William COPE (Esq.) (d. AFT 1567)
• 4. John COPE (Sir Knight) (d. 22 Jan 1559/9) (m.1 Bridget Raleigh - m.2 Mary Mallory - m.3 Margaret Tame)
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• http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p516.htm#i15515
• Father Alexander Cope
• Sir William Cope Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, p. 15, says Jane is mother of John. He was born in 1450 at of Banbury & Hanwell, Oxford, England. He married Agnes Harcourt in 1470. Sir William Cope married Jane Spencer, daughter of John Spencer and Ann Empson, before 1496. Sir William Cope died on 7 April 1513.
• Family 1 Agnes Harcourt b. c 1450
• Children
• ?Stephen Cope b. 1473
• ?Sir Henry Cope b. c 1478
• ?William Cope b. c 1480

* Family 2 Jane Spencer b. c 1471, d. 12 Feb 1525 

• Children
• ?Sir Anthony Cope+ b. c 1496, d. 1551
• ?Sir John Cope, Sheriff of Northampton+2 b. c 1504, d. 22 Jan 1559
• Citations
• 1.[S4221] Unknown author, Ancestors of American Presidents by Gary Boyd Roberts, p. 171; Burke's Peerage, 1938, p. 647.
• 2.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 202.
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• http://www.thepeerage.com/p32269.htm#i322689
• Sir William Cope
• Children of Sir William Cope and Jane Spencer
• 1.Sir John Cope+
• 2.Sir Anthony Cope+
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