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Joyce Denny

Joyce Denny

English courtier

Joyce Denny (1507–1560) was an English courtier.

Family and court connections

She was a daughter of Edmund Denny, a Baron of the Exchequer,[1] and Mary Troutbeck. Princess Elizabeth was lodged with her brother Anthony Denny at Cheshunt, a former property of Thomas Wolsey. A later country house on the site has been demolished. Her sister Martha Denny married Wymond Carew of Anthony, Cornwall, who was treasurer of the household for Catherine Parr,[2] and her elder sister Mary Denny married John Gates, a gentleman of the privy chamber of Edward VI.[3]

Marriages and children

She married William Walsingham (died 1534) of Scadbury, Chislehurst or Foots Cray Place,[4] a son of Edmund Walsingham.[5] Their London home was in the parish of St Mary Aldermanbury.[6] Their children included:

It has been argued that she was a strong Protestant influence on the upbringing of Francis Walsingham, who was probably brought up in her second husband's household at Hunsdon.[10]

On the death of William Walsingham, Joyce, her brother-in-law Edmund Walsingham, and John Walsingham were his executors. Joyce Walsingham's silver plate passed into the custody of another executor, Henry White, an undersheriff of London.[11]

Joyce married, secondly, John Cary or Carey of Pleshey (died 1551), a Groom of the Privy Chamber to Henry VIII.[12] Henry VIII granted them the lands of Thremhall Priory in Essex in 1536, soon after their marriage.[13] Their children included:

Death

She died in 1560. According to her will, she wished to be buried in the parish church of Aldermanbury, London, next to William Walsingham.[15] She bequeathed silver plate and a velvet bed tester embroidered with gold knots to Francis Walsingham.[16] An entry in the diary of Henry Machyn describes her burial on 6 May 1559/60 at St Clement Danes, London.[17]

References

  1. [1]
    Winthrop Still Hudson, The Cambridge Connection and the Elizabethan Settlement of 1559 (Duke, 1980), p. 65.
  2. [2]
    Retha M. Warnicke, Elizabeth of York and Her Six Daughters-in-Law: Fashioning Tudor Queenship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), p. 71.
  3. [3]
    Stephen Alford, Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI (Cambridge, 2002), 154.
  4. [4]
    Alan Haynes, Walsingham: Elizabethan Spymaster and Statesman (History Press, 2007).
  5. [5]
    William Archibald Scott Robertson, 'Chislehurst and its Church', Kentish Archaeology, 4 (London, 1880), p. 8.
  6. [6]
    Conyers Read, Mr Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth, vol. 1 (Clarendon Press, 1925), p. 12.
  7. [7]
    'TAMWORTH, John (c.1524-69), of Sandon, Essex; Sutton, Lincs', History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981
  8. [8]
    John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', Herald and Genealogist, vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 54.
  9. [9]
    Stanford E. Lehmberg, Sir Walter Mildmay and Tudor Government (University of Texas, 1964), p. 17.
  10. [10]
    John Cooper, The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I (faber & faber, 2011), pp. 10-11.
  11. [11]
    James Gairdner, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII, vol. 6 (London, 1882), p. 119 no. 268: Edward Alfred Webb, The History of Chislehurst: Its Church, Manors, and Parish (Chislehurst, 1899), p. 128.
  12. [12]
    John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', Herald and Genealogist, vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 34.
  13. [13]
    Victoria County History of Essex, vol. 2 (1907), pp. 163–4
  14. [14]
    John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', Herald and Genealogist, vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 34.
  15. [15]
    John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', Herald and Genealogist, vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 53.
  16. [16]
    John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', Herald and Genealogist, vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 53.
  17. [17]
    John Gough Nichols, Diary of Henry Machyn (London: Camden Society, 1848), pp. 193, 372-3.
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