What is the evidence Thomas Spencer, II was the son of Thomas le Despenser, Esq. & Joan Spencer, Baroness de Spencer
What is the evidence Thomas Spencer, II was the son of Thomas le Despenser, Esq. & Joan Spencer, Baroness de Spencer
https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/9HQY-RX7/thomas-spencer-1362-... shows parents as Nicholas & Joan, wife Dorothy de Abbott.
https://sites.rootsmagic.com/GonyonHistory/individual.php?p=19174 shows parents as Thomas & Joan, wives Dorothy Hill & Johanna Pollack.
They're a mess of locations and mix up with the Northampton Spencers.
Clipping out the upper ends of my paths on both sides, as it does look a bit odd and connected in a way that seems unusual--although marrying close cousins happened, so not entirely sure this means it is incorrect?
Sir John Carey (his father) → Margaret Carey, Lady Of Cary (his mother) → Sir Robert Spencer, Knt., of Spencercombe (her father) → John Spencer, Esq. (his father) → Lady Margaret le Despenser (his mother)
and on the other side:
Lady Emma le Despencer, Lady of Swallowfield (her daughter) → Sir John le Despenser, Kt. (her son) → Sir William le Despenser (his son) → John le Despenser (his son) → Baron Nicholas le Despenser, of Defford (his son) → Thomas le Despenser, Esq. (his son) → Thomas Spencer, II (his son)
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