Mary Denys

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Robert Dennis was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Denys (c. 1477 – 1561) of Holcombe Burnell,[1] Sheriff of Devon nine times between 1507/8 to 1553/4 and Member of Parliament for Devon who acquired large estates in Devon at the Dissolution of the Monasteries. His mother (his father's second wife) was Elizabeth Donne, a daughter of Sir Angel Donne,[2] an Alderman of London, by his wife Anne Hawarden (alias Hawardine), of Cheshire, and widow of Sir Thomas Murfyn,[2] Lord Mayor of London.

Dennis married twice. His first marriage was some time before 4 April 1552 to Mary Blount, the second daughter of William Blount, 4th Baron Mountjoy,[3] and first cousin to Lady Jane Grey, the Nine Day Queen of England.[a] Their children were:

1. Anne Dennis, wife of Sir John Chichester (died 1586) of Raleigh in the parish of Pilton, North Devon, Sheriff of Devon in 1585 and elder brother of Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester, of Eggesford, Devon. Her grandson was Sir John Chichester, 1st Baronet (died 1667).[4]

2. Gertrude Dennis, who married firstly (as his second wife) John Arundell (died 1580) of Trerice, Cornwall, Member of Parliament for Mitchell, Cornwall, in 1555 and 1558, and High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1573–1574. She married secondly Edward Parker, 12th Baron Morley (c. 1550 – 1618)[5] of Norfolk.

• [1] A. D.K. Hawkyard (1982). S.T. Bindoff (ed.). "DENYS, Robert (by 1530-92), of Holcombe Burnel and Bicton, Devon". The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1509-1558. The History of Parliament Trust and Institute of Historical Research. link
• [2] Kirk & Hawkyard
• [3] Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, article by Cooper, J.P.D.
• [4] Vivian, p.174, pedigree of Chichester
• [5] Vivian, p.280