Dorothy Spencer

Married her cousin, Thomas Spencer

According to an inscription in Everdon church, the eldest son of William Spencer and Agnes Heritage, Thomas Spencer (d. 17 August 1576) of Everdon, married Dorothy Spencer (d. 14 September 1575), the daughter of Sir William Spencer (d. 22 June 1532) of Wormleighton by Susan Knightley, the daughter of Sir Richard Knightley (d. 8 December 1534) of Fawsley, Northamptonshire, by whom he had five sons and seven daughters, of whom seven died as infants.

The only surviving son and heir William Spencer, married Elizabeth Milney, but died without issue, leaving his four married sisters, Dorothy (wife firstly of George Cope, esquire, and secondly of Gabriel Pulteney, esquire), Susanna (wife of John Temple, esquire), Mary (wife of Richard Wallop, esquire), and Catherine (wife of Thomas Browne, esquire), as his coheirs.

See the will of Thomas Spenser of Everdon, dated 26 June 1576 and proved 22 August, 1576, TNA PROB 11/58/322; the will, dated 22 January 1529 and proved 10 February 1535, of Sir Richard Knightley, TNA PROB 11/25/292; the will of Sir William Spencer (d. 22 June 1532) of Wormleighton, dated 17 June 1532 and proved 8 July 1532, TNA PROB 11/24/12; and Collins, Arthur, The English Baronetage, (London: Thomas Wotton, 1741), Vol. I, pp. 202-3 at: GoogleBooks

References

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