Henry de Spens

  General Notes:

!Earliest person on Spens Family Tree; Henry de Spens flourished in the end of the 13th century. He like most Scots barons was compelled to swear fealty to Edward 1, in 1296. Nicol de Spens, a contemporary, was also forced to swear allegiance to that imperious monaarch. Henry died soon after 1300 page 86 of Microfische;
The name Spens is a surname originally a Fifeshire surname, is derived from a word meaning in Scotland a spare room beside the kitchen, and in England, a yard, an enclosure,a buttery.
The family of Spens of Lathallan, of great antiquity in that country, from their carrying the lion rampant of Macduff in their arms, are said to have descended from the old earls of Fife.

Henry married.