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From: reed <>
Subject: Re: Diana
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 1997 04:07:33 -0600


>
> And while anyone is about it, is there any connection between Despencer and
> Spencer?
>
> --
> Tim Powys-Lybbe
> South Farm: (Note anti-spam in From:)
> A logical entity with a real conterpart but no address bar this.

The Spencers of Althorp, co. Northampton, were descended from from an
ancestry of "rich graziers and husbandmen" who became wealthy in the
Tudor period. Althorp was purchased in 1508. It was not unusual for
families who farmed barley, etc., to become wealthy during the Tudor
era. As happened with other families of the new rich, a pedigree was
later made showing a fictitious connection to the ancient family of Le
Despenser. J. Horace Round, as he was wont to do, destroyed the fiction
in his Studies in Peerage and Family History, pp. 279-329.

pcr

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