Earl Spencer (title)

The family seat is Althorp in Northamptonshire. It includes the civil parish of Althorp, in West Northamptonshire, of about . The family's estate includes significant land holdings in other parts of the country, including the village of North Creake in Norfolk. The family also owns Spencer House in St James's, London. ==Coat of arms==

The coat of arms of the family is as follows: Quarterly argent and gules, in the second and third quarters a fret or, over all on a bend sable, three escallops of the first. The crest, emerging from the coronet, is a griffin's head argent, gorged with a bar gemelle gules between two wings expanded of the second. The supporters are: Dexter, a griffin per fess ermine and erminois, gorged with a collar sable, the edges flory-counter-flory, and chained of the last, on the collar, three escallops argent; sinister, a wyvern erect on his tail ermine, collared and chained as the griffin. The motto is Dieu defend le droit (French: God protects the right). ==Earls Spencer (1765)==

, by Thomas Gainsborough • John Spencer, 1st Earl Spencer (1734–1783) • George John Spencer, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758–1834) • John Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl Spencer (1782–1845) • Frederick Spencer, 4th Earl Spencer (1798–1857) • John Poyntz Spencer, 5th Earl Spencer (1835–1910) • Charles Robert Spencer, 6th Earl Spencer (1857–1922) • Albert Edward John Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer (1892–1975) • Edward John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer (1924–1992) • Charles Edward Maurice Spencer, 9th Earl Spencer (b. 1964) The heir apparent is the present holder's son Louis Frederick John Spencer, Viscount Althorp (b. 1994). ==Family tree==

This is a continuation of the Spencer/Spencer-Churchill family tree for the Althorp branch of the Spencers found in the Spencer family article. ==Arms==