Robert Spencer, 1st Baron Spencer of Wormleighton, *1570, +Wormleighton, Warwick, England 25.10.1627; m.15.2.1588 Margaret Willoughby (*ca 1570, +Brington, Northampton 17.8.1597); They had issue:
- A1. William Spencer, of Wormleighton 2nd Baron Spencer, *Althorp, Northamptonshire bef 4.1.1592, +19.12.1636; m.Tichfield, Hampshire 1615 Lady Penelope Wriothesley (*Tichfield bef 8.11.1598, +16.7.1667)
- B1. Lady Elizabeth Spencer, +11.8.1672; 1m: 4.12.1634 John Craven 1st Lord Craven (bap 10.6.1610, +bef 26.2.1647); 2m: 7.7.1648 Hon. Henry Howard (+1663); 3m: Baron William Crofts of Saxham (+11.9.1677)
- B2. Henry Spencer 3rd Baron Spencer, 1st Earl of Sunderland, *Althorp bef 23.11.1620, +k.a. battle of Newbury 20.9.1643; m.Penhurst, Kent 20.7.1639 Lady Dorothy Sydney (*Sion House, Isleworth 5.10.1617, +5.2.1684)
- C1. Lady Dorothy Spencer, *Althorp ca 1639, +Lincoln's Inn, London 16.12.1670; m.St.Giles, Westminster 29.12.1656 George Saville 1st Marquis of Halifax (*Thornhill, Yorkshire 11.11.1633, England, +Westminster 5.4.1695)
- C2. Lady Penelope Spencer, *1643, +1645
- C3. Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, *Paris 1640, +Althorp 28.9.1702; m.St.Vedast's, London 10.6.1665 Lady Anne Digby (*Bristol ca 1646, +Brington 16.4.1715)
- D1. Lord Robert Spencer, *1666, +Paris 5.9.1688
- D2. Lady Anne Spencer, *Chiswick, Middlesex 24.6.1666, +Kinneil House, Linlithgow, Scotland 2.7.1690; m.bef 5.1.1687 Lt.Gen. Sir James Douglas-Hamilton 4th Duke of Hamilton (*Hamilton, Lanark, Scotland 11.4.1658, +Hyde Park, Middlesex 15.11.1712)
- D3. Lady Elizabeth Spencer, *ca 1672, +VI.1704; m.Westminster Abbey 20.10.1684 Donagh McCarthy, 4th Earl of Clancarty (*ca 1668, +1734)
- D4. Charles Spencer 3rd Earl of Sunderland, bap Althorp 23.12.1674, +Sunderland House, Piccadilly, London 19.4.1722; 1m: 12.1.1695 Lady Arabella Cavendish (*19.8.1673, +4.6.1698); 2m: Anne Churchill (*27.2.1683, +15.4.1716); 3m: 16.12.1717 Judith Tichborne Dowager Countess (*ca 1702, +17.5.1749), dau.of Benjamin Tichborne and Elizabeth Gibbs
- E1. [1m.] Lady Frances Spencer, *ca 1697, +Long Orton, Huntingdonshire, England 27.7.1742; m.27.11.1717 Henry Howard 4th Earl of Carlisle (*1694, +York 3.9.1758); 2m: St.Albans, Herts. 14.9.1699 Lady Anne Churchill (*27.2.1682, +15.4.1716)
- E2. [2m.] Lord Robert Spencer, *2.12.1700, +12.9.1701
- E3. [2m.] Robert Spencer 4th Earl of Sunderland, *24.10.1701, +Paris 15.9.1729
- E4. [2m.] Lady Anne Spencer, *16.12.1702, +Cleveland Row, Middlesex 19.2.1769; m.1720 William Bateman 1st Viscount Bateman (*bef 1705, +Paris XII.1744)
- E5. [2m.] Charles Spencer 3rd Duke of Marlborough, *Althorp 22.11.1706, +Münster, Westfalen 28.10.1758; m.Parish Church, East Barnet, Herts. 23.5.1732 Hon. Elizabeth Trevor (*Bromham, Wiltshire 4.5.1708, +Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire 7.10.1761
- F1. Lady Elizabeth Spencer, *29.12.1737, +Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park 30.4.1831; m.Langley, Buckinghamshire 12.3.1756 Lt.Gen. Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke, 7th Earl of Montgomery (*Whitehall, London 3.7.1734, +Wilton 26.1.1794)
- F2. Lady Diana Spencer, *ca 1738, +VIII.1808; 1m: Harbledon, Kent 8.9.1757 (div 1768) Frederick St.John 3rd Viscount Saint John, 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke (*21.12.1732, +5.5.1787); 2m: St.George's church, Hanover Square 12.3.1768 Topham Beauclerk M.P. (*XII.1739, +11.3.1780)
- F3. George Spencer 4th Duke of Marlborough, *Althorpe 26.1.1739, +Blenheim Palace 29.1.1817; m.Bedford House 23.8.1762 Lady Caroline Russell (*Bloomsbury, London 13.1.1743, +Blenheim Palace 26.11.1811)
- G1. Lady Caroline Spencer, *Althorp 27.10.1763, +Blenheim Palace 23.11.1813; m.Sion House, Isleworth 10.3.1792 Henry Welbore Agar-Ellis, 2nd Viscount Clifden (*22.1.1761, +Hanover Square 13.7.1836)
- G2. Lady Elizabeth Spencer, *Althorp 20.12.1764, +1812; m.Blenheim 5.2.1790 John Spencer (*Wheatfield Park 21.12.1767, +London 17.12.1831)
- G3. George Spencer, 5th Duke of Marlborough, took surname Spencer-Churchill 1817, *Wormleighton, Warwickshire 6.3.1766, +Blenheim Palace 5.3.1840; m.St.James' Church, Westminster 15.9.1791 Lady Susan Stewart of Galloway (*Rendlesham, Suffolk 20.4.1767, +Park Lane, London 2.4.1841); for their issue see HERE
- G4. Lady Georgina Charlotte Spencer, *Althorp 18.10.1769, +15.1.1802; m.16.4.1797 Rev. Edward Nares
- G5. Lord Henry John Spencer, *Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire 20.12.1770, +Berlin 3.7.1795
- G6. Lady Anne Spencer, *Althorp 5.11.1773, +Richmond, Surrey 7.8.1865; m.Hurst, Berkshire 10.12.1796 Cropley Ashley-Cooper 6th Earl of Shaftesbury (*24 Grosvenor Square, London 21.12.1768, +St.Giles' House, Wimborne, Dorset 2.6.1851)
- G7. Lady Amelia Sophia Spencer, *Althorp 8.9.1775, +30.1.1829; m.1812 Henry Pytches Boyce
- G8. Lord Francis Almeric Spencer -cr Baron Churchill of Wychwood (Whichwood) 1815, *Whichwood Forest, Oxfordshire 26.12.1779, +Brighton, Sussex 10.3.1845; m.Euston, Suffolk 25.11.1800 Lady Frances FitzRoy (*1.6.1780, +Ranger's Lodge, nr Charlbury, Oxon 7.1.1866); for their issue see HERE
- F4. Lord Charles Spencer, *31.3.1740, +16.6.1820; m.2.10.1762 Hon. Mary Beauclerk (*4.12.1743, +13.1.1812), dau.of Lord Vere Beauclerk 1st Baron Vere of Hanworth and Mary Chambers; for their issue see HERE
- F5. Lord Robert Spencer of Marlborough, *8.5.1747, +1831; m.Henrietta Fawkener, dau.of Everard Fawkener and Harriet Churchill
- E6. [1m.] Lady Diana Spencer, *13.5.1708, +Southampton House, London 27.9.1735; m.11.10.1731 John Russell 4th Duke of Bedford and Marquess of Tavistock (*Streatham, Surrey 30.9.1710, +Bedford House 14.1.1771)
- E7. [1m.] Hon. John Spencer of Althorp, *Althorp 13.5.1708, +Wimbledon 19.6.1746; m.Lansdown, Gloucestershire 13.2.1734 Lady Georgiana Carolina Carteret Countess of Marlborough (*Lansdown, Gloucestershire 12.3.1716, +Richmond 21.8.1780), dau.of John Carteret 2nd Lord Carteret, 1st Earl Granville and Frances Worsley
- F1. Lady Diana Spencer, *ca 1735, +1743
- F2. John Spencer cr Earl Spencer, Viscount Althorp, *Althorp 19.12.1734, +Bath, Somerset 31.10.1783; m.Althorp 20.12.1755 Lady Margaret Georgiana Poyntz Countess Spencer (*Midgam House, Berkshire 27.4.1737, +St.Albans, Hertfordshire 18.3.1814), dau.of Rt.Hon. Stephen Poyntz of Midgham Ho, Berks. and Anna Maria Mordaunt
- G1. Lady Georgiana Spencer Dss of Devonshire, *Wimbledon 7.6.1757, +Devonshire House, Piccadilly 30.3.1806; 1m: William Cavendish 5th Duke of Devonshire, KG; 2m: Charles Grey 2nd Earl Grey (*Falloden, Northumberland 13.3.1764, +Howick House 17.7.1845)
- G2. George John Spencer 2nd Earl Spencer, *Wimbledon 1.9.1758, +Althorp Park 10.11.1834; m.London 6.3.1781 Lady Lavinia Bingham (*Castlebar, co. Mayo 27.7.1762, +Spencer House 8.6.1831); for their issue see HERE
- G3. Lady Henrietta Frances Spencer, *Wimbledon 16.6.1761, +nr Florence 14.11.1821; m.St.James, Westminster 27.11.1780 Frederick Ponsonby 3rd Earl of Bessborough (*24.1.1758, +Canford House, Dorset 3.2.1844)
- G4. Lady Charlotte Spencer, *26.8.1765, +1766
- G5. Lady Louisa Spencer, *4.4.1769, +1769
- E8. [2m.] Lady Margaret Spencer, *22.9.1718
- E9. [2m.] N Spencer, *After 1718, +After 1718
- E10. [2m.] N Spencer, *After 1719, +After 1719
- E11. [2m.] Thomas Spencer, *18.6.1720
- E12. [2m.] William Spencer, *ca 1720, +17.4.1722
- C4. Hon. Henry Spencer
- B4. Anne Spencer
- B5. Lady Anne Townshend, *1623; m.Sir Robert Townsend
- B6. Alice Spencer
- B7. Lady Alice Spencer Countess of Drogheda, *Brington, Northampton 1625, +Brington, Northampton VII.1712; m.Henry Moore 1st Earl of Drogheda (*1625, +Dublin 11.1.1676)
- B8. Margaret Spencer
- B9. Lady Margaret Spencer, *1627, +ca 1693; m.30.8.1655 Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper 1st Earl of Shaftesbury (*Wimborne Saint Giles, Dorset 22.7.1621, +Amsterdam 21.1.1683)
- B10. Robert Spencer Viscount Teviot, *1629, +Surry Co., Virginia 20.5.1694; 1m: Jane Spencer (*ca 1657, +10.6.1689), dau.of Sir Thomas Spencer 3rd Bt. of Yarnton; 2m: Lady Jane Montagu, dau.of Sir Henry Montagu 1st Earl of Manchester and Catherine Spencer
- C1. Elizabeth Spencer, *St. George's Parish, Spotslyvania Co., Virginia 1664; m.John Long (*ca 1662, +Spotsylvania Co., Virginia ca 1752)
- B11. William Spencer of Ashton, *ca 1625, +1688; m.Elizabeth Gerard, dau.of Dutton Gerard 3rd Baron Gerard of Gerard's Bromley and Lady Elizabeth O'Brien
- C1. Elizabeth Spencer, *ca 1670; m.Robert Hesketh of Rufford (*ca 1670)
- A2. Margaret Spencer, bap Althorp 14.8.1597, +6.12.1613
- A3. Mary Spencer, *Althorp ca 1588, +14.7.1658; m.1.1.1606 Richard Anderson
- A4. Elizabeth Spencer, *Althorp 1589, +19.11.1618; m.3.9.1607 George Fane
- A5. John Spencer, *Althorp bef 6.12.1590, +16.8.1610
- A6. Richard Spencer, *1593, +1.11.1667; m.Mary Sandys
- A7. Edward Spencer, *Boston House, Co. Middlesex 1594, +16.2.1656; m.Welby, Leicester ca 1624 Margaret Goldsmith
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