Category:Cary (of Chilton Foliat, Wiltshire) arms

w:Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset married w:Eleanor Beauchamp, daughter of w:Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick. One of his daughters and co-heiresses was w:Eleanor Beaufort (Countess of Ormond), who married firstly w:James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormond and secondly Sir Robert Spencer (d.pre-1510), of London and Bridport, Dorset,^[1] also of Ashbury in Devon;^[2] frequently stated erroneously in credible sources^[3] to be of w:Spencer Combe, Crediton, Devon. One of the two daughters and co-heiresses of Sir Robert Spencer by his wife Eleanor Beaufort was w:Margaret Spencer (1472–1536) (or Eleanor), who married Thomas Cary of w:Chilton Foliat in Wiltshire, the younger son of William Cary (1437–1471) of Cockington and Clovelly in Devon, whose descendants included Cary, w:Viscount Falkland; Cary, w:Baron Hunsdon; Cary, Baron Cary of Leppington, w:Earl of Monmouth; and Cary, Viscount Rochfort, w:Earl of Dover,^[4] all of whom quartered the arms of Beaufort.

1. ↑ Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 106.
2. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, p.480 [1]
3. ↑ i.e. Debrett's Peerage, The Complete Peerage
4. ↑ Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitations of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, pedigree of Cary, pp.150-5