Thomas Spencer, of Badby

Thomas Spencer (b abt 1452 - d between 30 June 1493 and 15 September 1496) was the son of Henry Spencer and Isabella Lincoln.

He married Margaret and their son was William.

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• 2. Spencer (pre 1603)
• Spencer, of Althorp, co. Northampton (pre 1603)
• John Spencer, of Hodnell, co. Warwick
• stated by Lee to be son of Henry Spencer, of Badby, co. Leicester (d. 1476) (by his wife Isabel Lincolne, dau. (and hrss.?) of Henry Lincolne), son of Thomas Spencer, of Defford, co. Worcester, son of Nicholas Spencer, of Defford, co. Worcester (by his wife Joan Pollard, dau. of Richard Pollard), son of John Spencer, of Defford, co. Worcester (by his wife Alice Deverell, dau. (and hrss.?) of Giles Deverell), son of William Spencer, of Defford, co. Worcester. He died in 1330 and his IPM held at Pershore, co. Worcester, shows him holding a messuage, four virgates of land and two acres of meadow in Defford by socage, i.e. rent, from Geoffrey Dabitot. Despite the pedigree drawn up in 1595 by Richard Lee, Clarenceux King-of-Arms, for Sir John Spencer, this William Spencer was not the son by his second wife of John le Despencer, of Martley, co. Worcester, who died in 1275. John's IPM that year (Chancery Inquisitions 3 Edward I No 2) quite clearly shows that as he had died without surviving issue he was succeeded in his estates by his relative Hugh le Despencer, son of his cousin the famous Hugh le Despencer, Justiciar of England. There is no historical evidence other than Lee's pedigree of John le Despencer having a second wife.
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• mar. ..... Warsted, dau. (and hrss.?) of ..... Warsted
• children
  • 1. William Spencer, of Radbourne, co. Warwick
  • 2. John Spencer, of Hodnell, co. Warwick, lessee (tenant) of Wormleighton, co. Warwick 1469, and of Althorp, co. Northampton 1486 (will dated 15 Sep 1496; d. 4 Jan 1496/7; proved CPC 25 Jan 1496/7; IPM 5 Nov 1499), mar. Anne Empson, sister of Sir Richard Empson, Speaker of the House of Commons, and dau. of Peter Empson, of Towcester, co. Northampton, and had issue:
    • 1a. Thomas Spencer, of Hodnell, co. Warwick (b. c. 1493)
    • 2a. William Spencer
    • 1a. Jane Spencer (d. 12 Feb 1525), mar. (1) bef. 1496 as his second wife Sir William Cope, of Banbury, co. Oxford, Keeper of Portchester Castle (b. 1450; d. 7 Apr 1513), and (2) William Saunders, of Banbury, co. Oxford, and had issue by her first husband
  • 3. Thomas Spencer, of Badby, co. Leicester, and Everdon, co. Northampton, mar. Margaret Smith, dau. of ..... Smith, of Old, co. Northampton, and had issue:
    • 1a. William Spencer, of Badby, co. Leicester, and Everdon, co. Northampton, mar. Agnes Heritage, dau. of Thomas Heritage, of Burton Dassett, co. Warwick, and had issue: .... etc.
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• From: http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/ - SEARCH SITE FOR SPENCER
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Became ancestor of George Washington and FDR

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Also, of Eaton-Socon, Bedfordshire, England.

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Notes

From the Will dated 15 September 1496 and proved 25 January 1497, of John Spencer (d. 4 January 1497) of Hodnell, Warwickshire: PDF

According to the will of Sir John Spencer (d. 14 April 1522), the testator’s younger, brother, Thomas Spenser, had several sons by Margaret Smyth. Nothing appears to be known of any of these sons apart from the eldest, William Spencer of Badby, who married Agnes Heritage, sister of John Heritage (c.1470-c.1536), and daughter of Roger Heritage (d.1495) of Burton Dassett, Warwickshire. William Spencer of Badby and Agnes Heritage had three sons, Thomas Spencer (d. 17 August 1576); John Spencer of Thame (who married Alice Wilmer, sister of William Wilmer); and Giles Spencer (who married a wife whose name is unknown, by whom he had two daughters, Millicent and Susan); and three daughters, Julian Spencer (died c.1558) (wife of William Wilmer (d.1551) of Ryton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire, son of Richard Wilmer, for whose will, dated 22 June 1527 and proved 12 July 1527, see TNA PROB 11/22/370); Margery Spencer (wife of Thomas Judkyn of Weedon Bec, Northamptonshire, son of Robert Judkyn (1485-1534) of Brixworth); and Agnes Spencer (wife of Thomas Higginson of Berkswell, Warwickshire, for whose will, dated 29 November 1573 and proved 10 February 1574, see TNA PROB 11/56/81).

See the pedigree of Spencer of Everdon in Metcalfe, Walter C., ed., The Visitations of Northamptonshire Made in 1564 and 1618- 19, (London: Mitchell and Hughes, 1887), p. 48, 196 at: Archive.Org

See also Collins, supra, p. 226; the ODNB article on John Heritage; Lee, Peter, ‘Nuneaton and the Earls Spencer’ in Nuneaton Family History Group Newsletter, 1997, p. 8, available online; and Foster, Charles Wilmer and Joseph J. Green, History of the Wilmer Family, (Leeds: Goodall and Suddick, 1888), pp. 19, 24, at: Archive.Org

References

• http://nielsenhayden.com/genealogy-tng/getperson.php?personID=I1784... cites
• Clifford L. Stott, "Ancestry of Agnes Spencer, Wife of Thomas Higginson of Berkeswell, Warwickshire, Ancestor of Nine American Immigrants, Cousin to Diana, Princess of Wales, Sir Winston Churchill, President George Washington, and Others." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 174:199, Summer 2020; 174:330, Fall 2020.