. Genealogical gleanings of Siggins, and other Pennsylvania families; a volume of history, biography and colonial, revolutionary, civil and other war records including names of many other Warren County pioneers. , daughter of Robert Catline, Lord Chief Justice,Robert, his son. Which Robert, being a person of great estate, and forother his deserts, was, in the first of Jac. I. advanced tothe dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of LordSpencer of Wormleighton; shortly after, he was sent to theDuke of Wirtemberg with the Ensign of the most nobleOrder of the Garter. And by Margaret, his w
. Genealogical gleanings of Siggins, and other Pennsylvania families; a volume of history, biography and colonial, revolutionary, civil and other war records including names of many other Warren County pioneers. , daughter of Robert Catline, Lord Chief Justice,Robert, his son. Which Robert, being a person of great estate, and forother his deserts, was, in the first of Jac. I. advanced tothe dignity of a Baron of this Realm by the title of LordSpencer of Wormleighton; shortly after, he was sent to theDuke of Wirtemberg with the Ensign of the most nobleOrder of the Garter. And by Margaret, his wife, daughterto Sir Francis Willoughby of Woolaton, had issue, had foursons: John, William, Richard, and Edward; also twodaughters MARY and Elizabeth. (Colling Peerage, ). This was a branch issuing from the stock of the noblehouse of Marlborough and Spencer. From an illustriousline of progenitors arose WILLIAM SPENCER, Esq., ofRedburn, in the county of Warwick, anno. I. Henry VII.(an estate forfeited to the crown, by the attainer of SirWilliam Catesby, Esq., who married Elizabeth, sister ofSir Richard Empson, Knt, and had with a daughter Jane,two sons, John and Thomas. The elder Sir John Spencer,. SPENCER SPENCER COAT OF ARMS. Other Families 503 Knt., denominated of Snittersfield, in Warwickshire, whichestate he acquired with his wife, Isabel, daughter and co-heir of Walter Grant. (Burkes Extinct and Dormant Baronets.) SIR JOHN SPENCER, KNT., of Wormleighton Co.,Warwick, purchased that estate 3 Sept., 1506, and soonafter began the structure of the manor house there. Hewas knighted by Henry VIII, and appears to have possesseda large property in the counties of Warwick and Northamp-ton; he was a notable housekeeper, liberal to his poorneighbors and bountiful to his tenants and servants, re-built the church of Wormleighton, as well as those of Bring-ton and Staunton, Co. Northampton, and also bestowedvestments and chalices on them. Sir John married Isabel,dau. and co-heir
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