John Spencer
- Geboren: Omstr 1450
- Huwelijk (1): Isabel Grant
- Overleden: 14 Apr 1522 ongeveer 72 jaar oud
 Algemene notities:
In 1504, John Spencer, an innovative and entrepreneurial yeoman, considered himself sufficiently successful to justify petitioning for a grant of arms. He was awarded Azure a fess Ermine between 6 sea-mews' heads erased Argent and could thenceforward be accounted a gentleman. (He was subsequently knighted by Henry VIII.) At this time English society was still restructuring itself after the turmoil of the Wars of the Roses, and the gentry and the peerage were being restocked with new families seeking gentility. If at this time, 1504, John Spencer had any thought that he might be descended from the great mediaeval family of the Despencers, if there had been any legend among his kinsmen that this could be so, if there had been any chance that the suggestion would be taken seriously by the heralds, then he must have asked for arms similar to those of the Despencers and a note of his request and of its grounds would have been made in the records.
Guillaume de Paysac / http://www.baronage.co.uk/bphtm-01/books-6a.html
John trouwde met Isabel Grant. (Isabel Grant werd geboren omstreeks 1450.)
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