Joyce Denny

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Joyce Denny
Born1507 (1507)
Died1560 (aged 52–53)
Spouse(s)William Walsingham (d. 1534)
John Carey (d. 1551)
Children6+, including Francis and Edward
Father Edmund Denny
Relatives Martha Denny (sister)
Anthony Denny (brother)
Frances Burke (granddaughter)

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] [2] and Mary Troutbeck. Princess Elizabeth was lodged with her brother the courtier Anthony Denny at Cheshunt, a former property of Thomas Wolsey. [3] 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, [4] and her elder sister Mary Denny married John Gates, a gentleman of the privy chamber of Edward VI. [5]

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Marriages and children

She married William Walsingham (died 1534) of Scadbury, Chislehurst or Foots Cray Place, [6] a son of Edmund Walsingham. [7] Their London home was in the parish of St Mary Aldermanbury. [8] 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. [13]

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. [14]

Joyce married, secondly, John Cary or Carey of Pleshey (died 1551), a Groom of the Privy Chamber to Henry VIII. [15] Henry VIII granted them the lands of Thremhall Priory in Essex in 1536, soon after their marriage. [16] 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. [19] [20] She bequeathed silver plate and a velvet bed tester embroidered with gold knots to Francis Walsingham. [21] An entry in the diary of Henry Machyn describes her burial on 6 May 1559/60 at St Clement Danes, London. [22]

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References

  1. ↑ Robert Hutchinson, Elizabeth's Spymaster: Francis Walsingham and the Secret War that saved England (London: Phoenix, 2007), p. 26.
  2. ↑ Winthrop Still Hudson, The Cambridge Connection and the Elizabethan Settlement of 1559 (Duke, 1980), p. 65.
  3. ↑ Maria Hayward, The Inventory of Whitehall Palace, 2 (Illuminata Press, 2004), p. 74.
  4. ↑ Retha M. Warnicke, Elizabeth of York and Her Six Daughters-in-Law: Fashioning Tudor Queenship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), p. 71.
  5. ↑ Stephen Alford, Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI (Cambridge, 2002), 154.
  6. ↑ Alan Haynes, Walsingham: Elizabethan Spymaster and Statesman (History Press, 2007).
  7. ↑ William Archibald Scott Robertson, 'Chislehurst and its Church', Kentish Archaeology, 4 (London, 1880), p. 8.
  8. ↑ Conyers Read, Mr Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth, vol. 1 (Clarendon Press, 1925), p. 12.
  9. ↑ F. G. Emmison, Elizabethan Life: Wills of Essex Gentry and Merchants (Chelmsford, 1978), p. 18.
  10. ↑ 'TAMWORTH, John (c.1524-69), of Sandon, Essex; Sutton, Lincs', History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981
  11. ↑ John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', Herald and Genealogist, vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 54.
  12. ↑ Stanford E. Lehmberg, Sir Walter Mildmay and Tudor Government (University of Texas, 1964), p. 17.
  13. ↑ John Cooper, The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I (faber & faber, 2011), pp. 10-11.
  14. ↑ 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.
  15. ↑ John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', Herald and Genealogist, vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 34.
  16. ↑ Victoria County History of Essex, vol. 2 (1907), pp. 163–4
  17. ↑ John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', Herald and Genealogist, vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 34.
  18. ↑ F. G. Emmison, Elizabethan Life: Wills of Essex Gentry and Merchants (Chelmsford, 1978), p. 18.
  19. ↑ Robert Hutchinson, Elizabeth's Spymaster: Francis Walsingham and the Secret War that saved England (London: Phoenix, 2007), p. 29.
  20. ↑ John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', Herald and Genealogist, vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 53.
  21. ↑ John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', Herald and Genealogist, vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 53.
  22. ↑ John Gough Nichols, Diary of Henry Machyn (London: Camden Society, 1848), pp. 193, 372-3.
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