Elizabeth Spencer | |
|---|---|
| Baroness Hunsdon | |
 Miniature portrait of Elizabeth Spencer by Nicholas Hilliard | |
| Born | 29 June 1552 Althorp, Northamptonshire |
| Died | 25 February 1618 |
| Buried | Westminster Abbey, London |
| Noble family | Spencer |
| Spouse(s) | George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon Ralph Eure, 3rd Baron Eure |
| Issue | Elizabeth Carey, Lady Berkeley |
| Father | Sir John Spencer |
| Mother | Katherine Kitson |
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Elizabeth Spencer, Baroness Hunsdon (29 June 1552 – 25 February 1618) was an English noblewoman, scholar, and patron of the arts. She was the inspiration for Edmund Spenser's Muiopotmos, was commemorated in one of the poet's dedicatory sonnets to The Faerie Queene, and was represented as "Phyllis" in the latter's pastoral poem Colin Clouts Come Home Againe. She herself translated Petrarch. Her first husband was George Carey, 2nd Baron Hunsdon, grandson of Mary Boleyn, elder sister of Anne Boleyn, mother of Queen Elizabeth I.