Joyce Denny

{{Short description|English courtier}} {{Infobox person | name = Joyce Denny | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth year|1507}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death year and age|1560|1507}} | death_place = | father = Edmund Denny | relatives = Martha Denny (sister) Anthony Denny (brother) Frances Burke (granddaughter) | spouse = William Walsingham (d. 1534) John Carey (d. 1551) | children = Francis Walsingham Barbara Walsingham Christina Walsingham Elizabeth Walsingham Wymond Cary Edward Cary }} '''Joyce Denny''' (1507–1560) was an English courtier.

==Family and court connections== She was a daughter of Edmund Denny, a Baron of the Exchequer,<ref>Robert Hutchinson, ''Elizabeth's Spymaster: Francis Walsingham and the Secret War that saved England'' (London: Phoenix, 2007), p. 26.</ref><ref>Winthrop Still Hudson, ''The Cambridge Connection and the Elizabethan Settlement of 1559'' (Duke, 1980), p. 65.</ref> and Mary Troutbeck. Princess Elizabeth was lodged with her brother the courtier Anthony Denny at Cheshunt, a former property of Thomas Wolsey.<ref>Maria Hayward, ''The Inventory of Whitehall Palace'', 2 (Illuminata Press, 2004), p. 74.</ref> 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,<ref>Retha M. Warnicke, ''Elizabeth of York and Her Six Daughters-in-Law: Fashioning Tudor Queenship'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), p. 71.</ref> and her elder sister Mary Denny married John Gates, a gentleman of the privy chamber of Edward VI.<ref>Stephen Alford, ''Kingship and Politics in the Reign of Edward VI'' (Cambridge, 2002), 154.</ref>

==Marriages and children== She married William Walsingham (died 1534) of Scadbury, Chislehurst or Foots Cray Place,<ref>Alan Haynes, ''Walsingham: Elizabethan Spymaster and Statesman'' (History Press, 2007).</ref><ref>Edward Webb, ''The History of Chislehurst'' (London: George Allen, 1899), p. 127.</ref> a son of Edmund Walsingham.<ref>William Archibald Scott Robertson, 'Chislehurst and its Church', ''Kentish Archaeology'', 4 (London, 1880), p. 8.</ref> Their London home was in the parish of St Mary Aldermanbury.<ref>Conyers Read, ''Mr Secretary Walsingham and the Policy of Queen Elizabeth'', vol. 1 (Clarendon Press, 1925), p. 12.</ref> Their children included: * Francis Walsingham (died 1590), principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I. * Barbara Walsingham, who married Thomas Sidney.<ref>F. G. Emmison, ''Elizabethan Life: Wills of Essex Gentry and Merchants'' (Chelmsford, 1978), p. 18.</ref> * 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,<ref>[https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/tamworth-john-1524-69 'TAMWORTH, John (c.1524-69), of Sandon, Essex; Sutton, Lincs', ''History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603'', ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981]</ref> and (2) William Doddington of Breamore.<ref>John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', ''Herald and Genealogist'', vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 54.</ref> * Elizabeth Walsingham, who married Peter Wentworth (1529–1596). * Mary Walsingham, who married Walter Mildmay on 25 May 1546.<ref>Stanford E. Lehmberg, ''Sir Walter Mildmay and Tudor Government'' (University of Texas, 1964), p. 17.</ref>

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.<ref>John Cooper, ''The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I'' (faber & faber, 2011), pp. 10-11.</ref>

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.<ref>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.</ref>

Joyce married, secondly, John Cary or Carey of Pleshey (died 1551), a Groom of the Privy Chamber to Henry VIII.<ref>John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', ''Herald and Genealogist'', vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 34.</ref> Henry VIII granted them the lands of Thremhall Priory in Essex in 1536, soon after their marriage.<ref>[https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol2/pp163-164 ''Victoria County History of Essex'', vol. 2 (1907), pp. 163–4]</ref> Their children included: * Wymond Cary (1538-1612), knighted 1604.<ref>John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', ''Herald and Genealogist'', vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 34.</ref> * Edward Cary (died 1618).<ref>F. G. Emmison, ''Elizabethan Life: Wills of Essex Gentry and Merchants'' (Chelmsford, 1978), p. 18.</ref>

==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.<ref>Robert Hutchinson, ''Elizabeth's Spymaster: Francis Walsingham and the Secret War that saved England'' (London: Phoenix, 2007), p. 29.</ref><ref>John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', ''Herald and Genealogist'', vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 53.</ref> She bequeathed silver plate and a velvet bed tester embroidered with gold knots to Francis Walsingham.<ref>John Gough Nichols, 'Cary: Viscounts Falkland', ''Herald and Genealogist'', vol. 3 (London, 1866), p. 53.</ref> An entry in the diary of Henry Machyn describes her burial on 6 May 1559/60 at St Clement Danes, London.<ref>John Gough Nichols, ''Diary of Henry Machyn'' (London: Camden Society, 1848), pp. 193, 372-3.</ref>

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