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Sir William Denys (1470–1533) of Dyrham, Gloucestershire, was a courtier of King Henry VIII and High Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1518 and 1526. OriginsHe was the eldest son and heir of Sir Walter Denys (d. 1505) by his 2nd wife Agnes Danvers, 2nd daughter & co-heiress of Sir Robert Danvers (died 1467) of Epwell, Oxfordshire, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (1450–1467). The Inquisition post mortem of his father Sir Walter, dated 1505, states William his son and heir to have then been "aged 35 years and more", which suggests a date of birth of 1470. First marriageIn about 1481 William's father arranged for him to marry Edith Twynyho, daughter of the wealthy Cirencester lawyer and cloth-merchant John Twynyho (1440–1485), whose monumental brass survives over his tomb in the south aisle of Lechlade Church, Glos. Twynyho served as MP for Bristol in 1472–1475 and again in 1484 and had been Attorney General to Lord Edward, 1st son of King Edward IV in 1478. Twynyho had gone into partnership with John Tame (died 1500), the builder of Fairford Church, Glos., and a favourite of King Henry VII, and the pair had expanded their sheep, wool and cloth business in a bold fashion by acquiring large amounts of sheep rearing land, including Fairford in 1479. Indeed Twynyho's daughter Alice (died 1471) was given by her father as wife to John Tame, and the monumental brass of the couple can be seen on top of their chest tomb, known as "the Founder's Tomb", at Fairford Church. Twynyho's relative [2] Ankaret (née Hawkeston) had been a servant of Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence (died 1476), daughter and co-heiress of Richard Nevill Earl of Warwick (died 1471), whose death in childbirth had been blamed, by her husband George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence (executed 1478), on a poisoning by Ankaret. Clarence was determined to have Ankaret executed, against the wishes of the Queen, who believed her to be an elderly and harmless widow blamed unjustly. Clarence rapidly gave orders for her arrest, which was performed at Keyford, Somerset, the family home, on 12/4/1477 by Richard Hyde and Roger Strugge and 80 "riotous persons", whence she was taken to Bath, thence to Cirencester thence to Warwick, where she was tried before JP's at the guildhall and found guilty by a jury. She was hanged at Mytton, Warks., on 15 April 1477, which action is considered by modern historians as a notorious judicial murder. Clarence himself was executed in the Tower of London the following year, 18 Feb. 1478, and two days later on 20 Feb. 1478 Ankaret's grandson Roger Twynyho obtained the king's annulment of Ankaret's conviction.[3] It appears the Denys/Twynyho relationship may have started in 1481 on the sale or other transfer by Sir Walter Denys of the manors, or an interest therein, of North Cheriton and South Cheriton, Somerset, to the Twynyho/Tame wool-merchant partnership, which manors had been inherited from Sir Walter's grandmother Margaret Russell, daughter of Sir Maurice Russell (died 1416) of Dyrham. The following entry in the Somerset Feet of Fines records the transaction:[4]
Marriage settlementThe marriage settlement appears to have concerned the Denys manors of Aust, Gloucestershire, of which they held a moiety, and Litton Cheyney in Dorset. Litton CheyneThe Inquisition post mortem of William's father Sir Walter Denys, dated 18 October 1505, relating to his lands in Dorset, states as follows:[10]
The feoffees to this arrangement are the same as those who acted in the previously quoted transfer at about the same time of Cherington by Sir Walter Denys. AustThe marriage settlement appears to have concerned the Denys manor of Aust, Glos., as recorded in a charter dated 21 Edward IV (1481), incompletely quoted and preserved in the Gloucestershire Inquisition post mortem of Sir Walter Denys, dated 14 September 1505 :[11]
A daughter named Anne was born from the marriage with Edith Twynyho, who died sine prole.[12] CareerEsquire of the BodyIt may have been due to the position of William's half-uncle Hugh Denys (died 1511), Groom of the Stool to King Henry VII (died 1509), that he was appointed at some date before 5 June 1511 an Esquire for the Body to the new young King Henry VIII. Hugh had occupied the closest position to the king of all the courtiers, and was highly trusted by the old king. The new King, Henry's son, had not continued Hugh Denys in his post of Groom of the Stool, which was one of considerable personal intimacy, having appointed his own favourite Sir William Compton (died 1528), but perhaps out of respect, and indeed affection, for his father's loyal old servant had kept him on as a standard Esquire of the Body for the first 2 years of his reign until Hugh's death in 1511. It was perhaps as a replacement for old Hugh that the king appointed his half-nephew William Denys in his place. Awarded licence to emparkAt about the time of William's appointment as an Esquire of the Body the King granted him the honour of the licence to empark 500 acres of Dyrham, which is to say to enclose the land with a wall or hedgebank and to establish a captive herd of deer within, with exclusive hunting rights. This grant is witnessed by a charter on parchment, to which is affixed a rare example of a perfect great seal of Henry VIII, now hanging in a frame at Dyrham Park. It clearly was handed down with the deeds of the manor on the termination of the Denys era at Dyrham in 1571. The charter is of exceptional interest as it is witnessed by men of the greatest importance in the state, who were at the King's side at that moment, at the Palace of Westminster. The text of the document, translated from Latin is as follows:[13]
From the size of the present park it appears that only about 250 acres were ultimately enclosed. High SheriffSir William served as High Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1518 and 1526, continuing the tradition of the Denys family which would hold that post on more occasions than any other family.[14] Second marriageWilliam married 2ndly in about 1508 Anne Berkeley, daughter of Maurice Berkeley (died 1506), de jure 3rd Baron Berkeley, from the leading Gloucestershire family. This marriage accorded to William a considerable status in the county gentry. The marriage took place about two years after the death of Anne's father, so it appears the marriage was arranged between William and Anne's brother Maurice Berkeley (died 1526), de jure 4th Baron Berkeley. Since 1492 the Berkeleys had been dispossessed of their ancestral lands including Berkeley Castle , following the death of William Berkeley (died 1492), 1st Marquis Berkeley, Anne's uncle, who had bequeathed all his paternal lands to King Henry VII and his heirs male, either in exchange for his new marquessate or because he disapproved of his brother Maurice having married beneath the nobility to Isabel Mead, the daughter of Philip Meade, alderman & mayor of Bristol. Anne's father Maurice, during this Berkeley exile, had therefore been living at Thornbury, close to the Denys manors of Alveston and Earthcott Green. It may have been from this proximity that the marriage was proposed. Marriage settlementThe Inquisition post mortem of Sir William Denys, taken at Marshfield on 7 January 1534/5 makes reference to the marriage settlement, and details the manors which William settled on Anne's feoffees at that time:[16]
John FitzJames was Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench and had married (as her 2nd husband) Elizabeth Coningsby, mother of Denys's son-in-law Sir John Berkeley (died 1546) of Stoke Gifford. Attends Field of Cloth of GoldIn June 1520 Denys was one of the 7 knights of the Gloucestershire contingent selected to form part of the 100 or so nobles and gentlemen appointed to attend King Henry VIII at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, near Calais, where the King was to meet King Francis I of France. Each knight was expected to bring his own retinue, but limited to 10 persons and 4 horses. Edmund Tame (died 1534), the son of the business partner of John Twynyho, Denys's first father-in-law, was also on the Gloucestershire list, but his name was subsequently struck out and replaced, possibly due to ill-health. In a subsequent record Denys's name is shown as erased from the list of those attending the King, with the words "With the Queen" added, suggesting he had been transferred into the retinue of Katharine of Aragon.[17] Founds Guild of St DenisIn 1520 Sir William and Lady Ann founded the "Guild of St. Denis" in the Church of St Peter, Dyrham, next to their manor house. The early English guild performed the service to the general community and the poor and needy which is today performed by government-funded social security, but had a religious element in addition. This later guild at Dyrham appears however to have been more akin to a chantry, endowed with revenues to fund the singing by priests of masses for the souls of the members. The records of the guild are held by Bristol Archives, and it is recorded that "Many were the brethren and Sisters of this Guild who were prevailed upon to contribute towards its maintenance; which persons lived in fifty several parishes at least, in Bristol, Bath, Somerset and Gloucestershire, and might amount to three hundred persons". The endowments of the guild consisted mainly of livestock which were let out to local farmers for a yearly rental. The fate of the chantry at the Dissolution of the Monasteries is not recorded, possibly because it seems not to have held any endowments in the form of land.[18] It is likely that the Patron Saint Denis was selected due to his having the same name as the Denys family, yet the family itself was probably so named not after the saint, but due to its probable Danish origins. In ancient charters the name is latinised as Dacus being the adjectival form of Dacia, mediaeval Latin for "Denmark". In Norman French it is given as Le Deneis, i.e. "The Dane". There were 3 prominent mediaeval Denys families in the South-West, one from Ilchester, Somerset, one from Devon,[19] and that from Glamorgan which in about 1380 came to Siston and then to Dyrham in Gloucestershire, in the person of Sir Gilbert Denys (died 1422), great-grandfather of Sir William Denys. The three families may all have originated from a common root before the era of the mass adoption of armorials, that is to say the first half of the 13th century. The Somerset branch was the most short-lived, having disappeared before it might have adopted arms, but the Devon Denys's adopted as their arms three Danish battle-axes, the favoured weapons of the Vikings, as borne by the King of Denmark and recorded as used by him in the Camden rolls of arms, c. 1280. ProgenyBy his first marriage to Edith Twynyho Was produced one daughter:
By his second marriage to Anne Berkeley were produced numerous children: Sons
The Catalogue of Seals in the British Museum records the following entry:
This appears to be one of the leopards on the Denys arms. The motto may have been from Ovid, Aeneid, Book 5, line 709: Quo fata trahunt, (retrahuntque, sequamur)("Whither the Fates draw (us) (and draw us back, let us follow"))[22]
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References1. ^Heralds' Visitation of Gloucestershire 1623, pp. 262–3, "Twinyho" {{DEFAULTSORT:Denys, William}}2. ^Visitation of Glos. 1623, p.262/3 gives Ankaret as the sister-in-law of John Twynyho of Cirencester, married to William Twynyho of Keyford, Somerset. 3. ^Calendar of Patent Rolls 1476 -1485, pp.72-73 4. ^Green, Emanuel (ed.) Pedes Finium, Commonl;y Called Feet of Fines for the County of Somerset, vol.22, London, 1906, no.137, pp.212-3 [https://archive.org/stream/pedesfiniumcomm03pleagoog/pedesfiniumcomm03pleagoog_djvu.txt] 5. ^Victoria County History, Gloucestershire, vol.9 6. ^Index of Wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, ed. J. Challenor, London, 1895 7. ^Emery, Anthony, Greater Mediaeval Houses, vol.2, p. 130, Olveston Court 8. ^Transactions of the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Vol.13, 188/9, pp. 1–5, Little Sodbury 9. ^History of Parliament, Bindoff, S. (ed.), House of Commons 1509-1558, vol.1, Huntley 10. ^Calendar of Inquisitions post mortem, 20-24 Henry VII, vol. 3, no.177, pp. 96–7 11. ^Calendar of Inquisitions post mortem, 20-24 Henry VII, vol. 3, no.176, p. 96 12. ^Visitation of Gloucestershire, p. 51, Dennis 13. ^Translation provided by information sheet by National Trust, at Dyrham Park; A summary of the charter was retained in the royal records, Charter Roll 200, no.20, printed in Letters & Papers of Henry VIII, Foreign & Domestic, 1509-1514, vol.1, 5 June 1511, worded as follows:"William Denys, Esquire of the Body, license by charter to impark 500 acres at Le Worthy within his manor of Dereham Gloucestershire & to have free-warren in all the demesnes of that manor. Witnesses: W. Archbishop of Canterbury, Chancellor (William Warham)R. Bishop of Winchester, Privy Seal (Richard Foxe)Thomas, Bishop of Durham, Secretary (Thomas Ruthall)Edward, Duke of Buckingham (Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham)Thomas, Marquis of Dorset (Thomas Grey, 2nd Marquess of Dorset)Thomas, Earl of Surrey, Treasurer (Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk)George, Earl of Shrewsbury, Steward of the Household (George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury)Charles Somerset, Chamberlain, Baron (Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester)George Nevile of Bergavenny, Baron (George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny)Sir Thomas Lovell, Treasurer of the HouseholdSir Edward Poynings, Controller of the Household 14. ^Atkyns, Sir Robert. The Ancient & Present State of Gloucester, 1712. 15. ^Harrison, Frederic, Annals of an Old Manor House: Sutton Place, Guildford, London, 1899, p. 239 16. ^Inq. p.m. Quoted from: Proceedings of Bath Natural History & AFC vol. 9, pp. 59–70 17. ^Letters & Papers, H VIII, 1519-1523, vol.3, no.704, 21-30 March 1520 18. ^Transactions of the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, Vol.13, 1888-9, pp. 6–9, Fox, Francis, On the Guilds of Sodbury and Dyrham 19. ^The Battle Abbet Roll by the Duchess of Cleveland, London, 1889, vol.1, listed under "Denise" *The Battle Abbey Roll with some Account of the Norman Lineages by the Duchess of Cleveland, 3 vols., London, 1889. 20. ^Bristol Archives AC/D/3/46a-b 21. ^Quoted from: MacLean, Sir John (ed.), Chantry Certificates of Gloucestershire, Transactions of the Bristol & Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1883-4, vol. 8, pp. 229–305 22. ^Birch, W. de G., Catalogue of Seals in Dept. of MSS in British Museum, vol. 1, 1887 23. ^Bindoff, S.T.(Ed.), History of Parliament: House of Commons 1509-1558, Vol.3, pp. 136–137 24. ^Lygon arms: Debrett's Peerage, 1968, pp. 123–4, Earl Beauchamp 25. ^Maclean, Sir John, op. cit., p. 50 26. ^Letters & Papers Hen. VIII, ix, pp. 39, 47. 27. ^L&P Hen VIII, ix, p. 47; Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine (WAM) xxviii, 297. 28. ^Heralds' Visitation of Gloucestershire, p. 4, Arnold, footnote 1 10 : Denys family|1533 deaths|People of the Tudor period|People from South Gloucestershire District|15th-century English people|16th-century English people|1470 births|English knights|High Sheriffs of Gloucestershire|Esquires of the Body |
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