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 the courtier
Anthony Denny at
Cheshunt, a former property of
Thomas Wolsey.
[2] 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,
[3] and her elder sister Mary Denny married
John Gates, a gentleman of the privy chamber of
Edward VI.
[4]
Marriages and children
She married William Walsingham (died 1534) of
Scadbury,
Chislehurst or
Foots Cray Place,
[5] a son of
Edmund Walsingham.
[6] Their London home was in the parish of
St Mary Aldermanbury.
[7] Their children included:
-
Francis Walsingham (died 1590),
principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I.
- 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,
[8] and (2) William Doddington of
Breamore.
[9]
- Elizabeth Walsingham, who married
Peter Wentworth (1529–1596).
- Mary Walsingham, who married
Walter Mildmay on 25 May 1546.
[10]
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.
[11]
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.
[12]
Joyce married, secondly,
John Cary or Carey of
Pleshey (died 1551), a Groom of the Privy Chamber to
Henry VIII.
[13] Henry VIII granted them the lands of
Thremhall Priory in Essex in 1536, soon after their marriage.
[14] 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.
[16] She bequeathed silver plate and a velvet bed tester embroidered with gold knots to Francis Walsingham.
[17] An entry in the diary of
Henry Machyn describes her burial on 6 May 1559/60 at
St Clement Danes, London.
[18]
References
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^ Winthrop Still Hudson, The Cambridge Connection and the Elizabethan Settlement of 1559 (Duke, 1980), p. 65.
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^
Maria Hayward, The Inventory of Whitehall Palace, 2 (Illuminata Press, 2004), p. 74.
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^
Retha M. Warnicke, Elizabeth of York and Her Six Daughters-in-Law: Fashioning Tudor Queenship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), p. 71.
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^ Stephen Alford, Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI (Cambridge, 2002), 154.
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^ Alan Haynes, Walsingham: Elizabethan Spymaster and Statesman (History Press, 2007).
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^ William Archibald Scott Robertson, 'Chislehurst and its Church', Kentish Archaeology, 4 (London, 1880), p. 8.
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^
Conyers Read, Mr Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth, vol. 1 (Clarendon Press, 1925), p. 12.
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^
'TAMWORTH, John (c.1524-69), of Sandon, Essex; Sutton, Lincs', History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981
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^ John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', Herald and Genealogist, vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 54.
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^ Stanford E. Lehmberg, Sir Walter Mildmay and Tudor Government (University of Texas, 1964), p. 17.
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^ John Cooper, The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I (faber & faber, 2011), pp. 10-11.
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^ 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.
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^ John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', Herald and Genealogist, vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 34.
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^
Victoria County History of Essex, vol. 2 (1907), pp. 163–4
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^ John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', Herald and Genealogist, vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 34.
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^ John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', Herald and Genealogist, vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 53.
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^ John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', Herald and Genealogist, vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 53.
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^ John Gough Nichols, Diary of Henry Machyn (London: Camden Society, 1848), pp. 193, 372-3.