Joyce Denny
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:
- Francis Walsingham (died 1590)
- Barbara Walsingham, who married Thomas Sidney
- Christina or Christian Walsingham, married (1) John Tamworth (died 1569), who was ambassador to Scotland concerning the Chaseabout Raid, gave money to Agnes Keith, Countess of Moray, and was detained at Hume Castle,[4] and (2) William Doddington of Breamore.[5]
- Elizabeth Walsingham, who married Peter Wentworth (1529–1596).
- Mary Walsingham, who married Walter Mildmay on 25 May 1546.[6]
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:
- Wymond Cary (1538-1612), knighted 1604.[9]
- Edward Cary (died 1618)
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
- ^ Retha M. Warnicke, Elizabeth of York and Her Six Daughters-in-Law: Fashioning Tudor Queenship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), p. 71.
- ^ William Archibald Scott Robertson, 'Chislehurst and its Church', Kentish Archaeology, 4 (London, 1880), p. 8.
- ^ Conyers Read, Mr Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth, vol. 1 (Clarendon Press, 1925), p. 12.
- ^ 'TAMWORTH, John (c.1524-69), of Sandon, Essex; Sutton, Lincs', History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981
- ^ John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', Herald and Genealogist, vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 54.
- ^ Stanford E. Lehmberg, Sir Walter Mildmay and Tudor Government (University of Texas, 1964), p. 17.
- ^ John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', Herald and Genealogist, vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 34.
- ^ Victoria County History of Essex, vol. 2 (1907), pp. 163–4
- ^ John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', Herald and Genealogist, vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 34.
- ^ John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', Herald and Genealogist, vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 53.
- ^ John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', Herald and Genealogist, vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 53.