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



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

Family and court connections

She was a daughter of Edmund Denny 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.[1]

Marriages and children

She married William Walsingham (died 1534) of Scadbury, Chislehurst or Foots Cray Place, a son of Edmund Walsingham.[2] Their London home was in the parish of St Mary Aldermanbury.[3] Their children included:

She married, secondly, John Cary or Carey of Pleshey (died 1551), a Groom of the Privy Chamber to Henry VIII.[7] Henry VIII granted them the lands of Thremhall Priory in Essex in 1536, soon after their marriage.[8] Their children included:

Death

She died in 1560. According to her will, she wished to be buried in the parish church of Adermanbury, London, next to William Walsingham.[10] She bequeathed silver plate and a velvet bed tester embroidered with gold knots to Francis Walsingham.[11]

References

  1. ^ Retha M. Warnicke, Elizabeth of York and Her Six Daughters-in-Law: Fashioning Tudor Queenship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), p. 71.
  2. ^ William Archibald Scott Robertson, 'Chislehurst and its Church', Kentish Archaeology, 4 (London, 1880), p. 8.
  3. ^ Conyers Read, Mr Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth, vol. 1 (Clarendon Press, 1925), p. 12.
  4. ^ 'TAMWORTH, John (c.1524-69), of Sandon, Essex; Sutton, Lincs', History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981
  5. ^ John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', Herald and Genealogist, vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 54.
  6. ^ Stanford E. Lehmberg, Sir Walter Mildmay and Tudor Government (University of Texas, 1964), p. 17.
  7. ^ John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', Herald and Genealogist, vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 34.
  8. ^ Victoria County History of Essex, vol. 2 (1907), pp. 163–4
  9. ^ John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', Herald and Genealogist, vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 34.
  10. ^ John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', Herald and Genealogist, vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 53.
  11. ^ John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', Herald and Genealogist, vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 53.