Edmund Denny

Sir Edmund Denny, of Cheshunt (died 1520) was a Tudor courtier and politician. He was a Baron of the Exchequer[2] during the reign of Henry VIII of England.

Arms of Denny: Gules, a saltire argent between twelve crosses pattée or[1]

His son, Sir Anthony Denny rose to become the most powerful member of the Privy Council during the King's last years. Edmund's children also included Martha Denny and Joyce Denny, wife of William Walsingham and then of Sir John Carey, and mother of Sir Francis Walsingham[3] and Mary Walsingham, wife of Sir Walter Mildmay.

Notes

1. As seen impaled by Walsingham in Mereworth Church, Kent, see File:HeraldicEastWindow StLawrence'sChurch Mereworth Kent.jpg (Source: C. R. Councer, Heraldic Painted Glass in the Church of St. Lawrence, Mereworth, Archaeologia Cantiana, Vol.77, 1962, pp.48-62, esp. p.50 et seq)
2. Sil 2004.
3. Rye 1891, pp. 101–2

References

• Nichols, John Gough, ed. (1858). The Topographer and Genealogist. III. London: John Bowyer Nichols and Sons. pp. 208–9. Retrieved 6 May 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Rye, Walter (1891). The Visitation of Norfolk. XXXII. London: Harleian Society. pp. 101–2. Retrieved 6 May 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Sil, Narasingha P. (2004). "Denny, Sir Anthony (1501–1549)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7506. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
• http://www.thepeerage.com/p2951.htm#i29501