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Margaret de Spencer 1466 – 1501 – Genealogical Records

Birth Date: 1466

Birth Location: Spencercomb, Devon, England

Death Date: 1501

Death Location: Devon, England

Father: Sir Spencer

Mother: Eleanor, Beaufort

Spouse(s): Thomas Cary

Children(s): William Carey

Margaret de Spencer was born in 1466 in Spencercomb, Devon, England, the child of Sir Robert de Spencer and Eleanor, Countess of Wiltshire Beaufort. Margaret de Spencer married Thomas Cary, and had children including William Carey. Margaret de Spencer passed away in 1501 in Devon, England.

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Biography

  • Margaret de Spencer was born in 1466 in Spencercomb, Devon, England, the child of Sir Robert de Spencer and Eleanor, Countess of Wiltshire Beaufort.
  • Margaret de Spencer married Thomas Cary, and had children including William Carey.
  • Margaret de Spencer passed away in 1501 in Devon, England.

Immediate Family

Parents

Sir Spencer
1430 – 1502
Birth Location: Ashbury, Devon, England
SS
Eleanor, Beaufort
1431 – 1501
Birth Location: London, Middlesex, England
EB

Spouses(s)

Thomas Cary
1460 – 1536
Birth Location: Clovelly, Devon, England
TC

Children(s)

William Carey
1495 – 1528
Birth Location: Chilton Foliat, Wiltshire, England
WC

Margaret Spencer's Ancestors

Self
Margaret Spencer
1466 – 1501
Birth Place: Spencercomb, Devon, England
Parents
Sir Robert de Spencer
1430 – 1502
Ashbury, Devon, England
Eleanor, (Countess of Wiltshire) Beaufort
1431 – 1501
London, Middlesex, England
Grandparents
Edmund, (2nd Duke of Somerset) Beaufort
1406 – 1455
London, Middlesex, England
Eleanor (de) Beauchamp
1407 – 1467
Walthamstow, Essex, England
Great-Grandparents
Sir Beaufort
1373 – 1410
Margaret, Holland
1386 – 1439
2nd-Great-Grandparents
John Gaunt
1340 – 1399
Katherine Roet
1350 –

Margaret Spencer's Descendants

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Margaret (de) Spencer (1466 – 1501) m. Thomas Cary (1460 – 1536)
  1. 1. William Carey (1495 – 1528) m. Mary Boleyn (1499 – 1543)
    1. 1. Mary (Katherine) Carey (19 May 1524 – 15 Jan 1569) m. Sir (Francis Bart Knollys\Knowles, MP, KG, of Rotherfield Grey, Vice-Chamberlain to Queen) Elizabeth (1514 – 19 Jul 1596)
      1. 1. Abigail (Lettice) Knollys (1551 – 1620) m. Joseph Hildreth (1550 – 1611)
        1. 1. Richard Hildreth (1583 – 1645) m. Lady (Elizabeth Platt, Hildreth) (imm) (Abt. 1580 – 28 Oct 1677)

Margaret Spencer's Timeline

2 Records

1466
1466
Birth of Margaret de Spencer in Spencercomb, Devon, England
Spencercomb, Devon, England
1501
1501
Age 35
Death of Margaret de Spencer in Devon, England
Devon, England

Sources

    Genealogy Event 1
    Event Type: Birth
    Event Date: 1466
    Event Place: Spencercomb, Devon, England

    Genealogy Event 2
    Event Type: Death
    Event Date: 1501
    Event Place: Devon, England
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