~ Sir William Denys ~ of Dyrham~
Birth: 1470 - Dyrham, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England
Died: 22 June 1533, in Dyrham, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England.
Bio:
Sir William Denys (1470–1533) of Dyrham, Gloucestershire, was a courtier of King Henry VIII and High Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1518 and 1526.
He 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.
In 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.
In 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. 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 Latinized as Dacus being the adjectival form of Dacia, medieval Latin for "Denmark". In Norman French, it is given as Le Deneis, i.e. "The Dane". There were 3 prominent medieval Denys families in the South-West, one from Ilchester, Somerset, one from Devon, 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 favored 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.
Contributor: Jerry D. Ferren (48024221) • [email protected]
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Parents:
Father~
Sir Walter Dennis, Kt.
Born: 1430 - Dyrham, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England.
Died: 1 September 1505 - Gloucestershire, England
Mother~
Alice Walwyn ( Dennis / Denys) Baybham
Birth: circa 1452 - Mitcheldean, Forest of Dean District, Gloucestershire, England
Death: 22 October 1518 - in Gloucestershire, England
Burial: St Michael and All Angels Churchyard
Mitcheldean, Forest of Dean District, Gloucestershire, England
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Spouse:
Anne Dennis (Berkeley) ( 1474-1523 )
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Children:
Eleanor Dennis Lygon ***
Birth: 1515 -Worcestershire, England
Death: 1579 - Bromsgrove District Worcestershire, England
...spouse: William Lygon, Esq.
....Birth:1518- Death: 29 September 1567 - Marriage: 1529
William married Anne ( Berkeley )Dennis in 1500 in Dyrham, Gloucestershire, England. Together they had the following children: Sir Maurice Dennis, Kt.; Walter Denys, MP; Margaret Rolfe Arnold; John Dennis; William Denys; Katherine Lygon; Ann Dennis; Elizabeth Porter; Francis Dennis; Thomas Dennis; Eleanor Lygon; Bridget Denys; Mary Dennis.
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Birth: 1470 - Dyrham, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England
Died: 22 June 1533, in Dyrham, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England.
Bio:
Sir William Denys (1470–1533) of Dyrham, Gloucestershire, was a courtier of King Henry VIII and High Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1518 and 1526.
He 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.
In 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.
In 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. 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 Latinized as Dacus being the adjectival form of Dacia, medieval Latin for "Denmark". In Norman French, it is given as Le Deneis, i.e. "The Dane". There were 3 prominent medieval Denys families in the South-West, one from Ilchester, Somerset, one from Devon, 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 favored 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.
Contributor: Jerry D. Ferren (48024221) • [email protected]
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Parents:
Father~
Sir Walter Dennis, Kt.
Born: 1430 - Dyrham, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England.
Died: 1 September 1505 - Gloucestershire, England
Mother~
Alice Walwyn ( Dennis / Denys) Baybham
Birth: circa 1452 - Mitcheldean, Forest of Dean District, Gloucestershire, England
Death: 22 October 1518 - in Gloucestershire, England
Burial: St Michael and All Angels Churchyard
Mitcheldean, Forest of Dean District, Gloucestershire, England
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Spouse:
Anne Dennis (Berkeley) ( 1474-1523 )
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Children:
Eleanor Dennis Lygon ***
Birth: 1515 -Worcestershire, England
Death: 1579 - Bromsgrove District Worcestershire, England
...spouse: William Lygon, Esq.
....Birth:1518- Death: 29 September 1567 - Marriage: 1529
William married Anne ( Berkeley )Dennis in 1500 in Dyrham, Gloucestershire, England. Together they had the following children: Sir Maurice Dennis, Kt.; Walter Denys, MP; Margaret Rolfe Arnold; John Dennis; William Denys; Katherine Lygon; Ann Dennis; Elizabeth Porter; Francis Dennis; Thomas Dennis; Eleanor Lygon; Bridget Denys; Mary Dennis.
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~ Sir William Denys ~ of Dyrham~
Birth: 1470 - Dyrham, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England
Died: 22 June 1533, in Dyrham, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England.
Bio:
Sir William Denys (1470–1533) of Dyrham, Gloucestershire, was a courtier of King Henry VIII and High Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1518 and 1526.
He 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.
In 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.
In 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. 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 Latinized as Dacus being the adjectival form of Dacia, medieval Latin for "Denmark". In Norman French, it is given as Le Deneis, i.e. "The Dane". There were 3 prominent medieval Denys families in the South-West, one from Ilchester, Somerset, one from Devon, 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 favored 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.
Contributor: Jerry D. Ferren (48024221) • [email protected]
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Parents:
Father~
Sir Walter Dennis, Kt.
Born: 1430 - Dyrham, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England.
Died: 1 September 1505 - Gloucestershire, England
Mother~
Alice Walwyn ( Dennis / Denys) Baybham
Birth: circa 1452 - Mitcheldean, Forest of Dean District, Gloucestershire, England
Death: 22 October 1518 - in Gloucestershire, England
Burial: St Michael and All Angels Churchyard
Mitcheldean, Forest of Dean District, Gloucestershire, England
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Spouse:
Anne Dennis (Berkeley) ( 1474-1523 )
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Children:
Eleanor Dennis Lygon ***
Birth: 1515 -Worcestershire, England
Death: 1579 - Bromsgrove District Worcestershire, England
...spouse: William Lygon, Esq.
....Birth:1518- Death: 29 September 1567 - Marriage: 1529
William married Anne ( Berkeley )Dennis in 1500 in Dyrham, Gloucestershire, England. Together they had the following children: Sir Maurice Dennis, Kt.; Walter Denys, MP; Margaret Rolfe Arnold; John Dennis; William Denys; Katherine Lygon; Ann Dennis; Elizabeth Porter; Francis Dennis; Thomas Dennis; Eleanor Lygon; Bridget Denys; Mary Dennis.
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Birth: 1470 - Dyrham, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England
Died: 22 June 1533, in Dyrham, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England.
Bio:
Sir William Denys (1470–1533) of Dyrham, Gloucestershire, was a courtier of King Henry VIII and High Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1518 and 1526.
He 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.
In 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.
In 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. 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 Latinized as Dacus being the adjectival form of Dacia, medieval Latin for "Denmark". In Norman French, it is given as Le Deneis, i.e. "The Dane". There were 3 prominent medieval Denys families in the South-West, one from Ilchester, Somerset, one from Devon, 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 favored 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.
Contributor: Jerry D. Ferren (48024221) • [email protected]
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Parents:
Father~
Sir Walter Dennis, Kt.
Born: 1430 - Dyrham, Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire, England.
Died: 1 September 1505 - Gloucestershire, England
Mother~
Alice Walwyn ( Dennis / Denys) Baybham
Birth: circa 1452 - Mitcheldean, Forest of Dean District, Gloucestershire, England
Death: 22 October 1518 - in Gloucestershire, England
Burial: St Michael and All Angels Churchyard
Mitcheldean, Forest of Dean District, Gloucestershire, England
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Spouse:
Anne Dennis (Berkeley) ( 1474-1523 )
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Children:
Eleanor Dennis Lygon ***
Birth: 1515 -Worcestershire, England
Death: 1579 - Bromsgrove District Worcestershire, England
...spouse: William Lygon, Esq.
....Birth:1518- Death: 29 September 1567 - Marriage: 1529
William married Anne ( Berkeley )Dennis in 1500 in Dyrham, Gloucestershire, England. Together they had the following children: Sir Maurice Dennis, Kt.; Walter Denys, MP; Margaret Rolfe Arnold; John Dennis; William Denys; Katherine Lygon; Ann Dennis; Elizabeth Porter; Francis Dennis; Thomas Dennis; Eleanor Lygon; Bridget Denys; Mary Dennis.
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