Robert Spencer

  Algemene notities:

The arms granted in 1504 were used at least as late as 1576, and probably remained so in use until 1595, the year Richard Lee, Clarenceux King of Arms, visited the Spencer seat at Althorpe and "discovered" the family's descent as cadets of the great Despencers. The consequences of this visit included a monument to the memory of his host's father being erected with the ancient Despencer arms (with the addition of three escallops in bend) displayed instead of the Spencer arms, and an earlier monument to the 1504 grantee, the first Sir John Spencer, having the 1504 Spencer arms removed and replaced with the Despencer arms. This rewrote history.

Guillaume de Paysac / http://www.baronage.co.uk/bphtm-01/books-6a.html

Robert trouwde met Margaret Willoughby, dochter van Francis Willoughby en Elizabeth Lyttleton, op 15 Feb 1587. (Margaret Willoughby werd geboren omstreeks 1570 en overleed op 17 Aug 1597.)