References for Robert 2nd Earl Spencer * of Sunderland
Sir B.Burke: The Dormant and Extinct Peerage. London, 1866
Sir B.Burke: A Genealogical History of the Peerages and Knightages of the British Empire. London, 1953
M.A.H., Marquis de Ruvigny: The Plantagenet roll of the blood royal, Essex Volume. London, Edinburgh, 1908
F.M.Powicke, E.B.Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. London, 1961