Jocasta "Joyce" Culpeper of Oxen Hoath (c. 1480 – 1531) was the mother of Catherine Howard who later became the fifth wife and Queen Consort to King Henry VIII.
Joyce was born in Oxon Hoath, Hadlow, Kent, the first child of Sir Richard Culpeper of Oxon Hoath and his second wife Isabel Worsley. She had a younger sister called Margaret (c.1481) and a younger brother Thomas (1484 - 1492). Her father died in 1484 and her mother married again to John ...
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Jocasta "Joyce" Culpeper of Oxen Hoath (c. 1480 – 1531) was the mother of Catherine Howard who later became the fifth wife and Queen Consort to King Henry VIII.
Joyce was born in Oxon Hoath, Hadlow, Kent, the first child of Sir Richard Culpeper of Oxon Hoath and his second wife Isabel Worsley. She had a younger sister called Margaret (c.1481) and a younger brother Thomas (1484 - 1492). Her father died in 1484 and her mother married again to John Legh of Stockwell. Joyce was also the sister-in-law of Elizabeth Boleyn and aunt of Anne Boleyn, Mary Boleyn, and George Boleyn.
In 1496 she married Ralph Legh (or Leigh) and together they had five children:
From Joyce's first marriage came Isabel Leigh, born abt. 1495, who married Sir Edward Baynton, one of the largest landowners in Wiltshire. Their son Henry Baynton married Anne Cavendish, whose father, Sir William, was the ancestor of the Cavendish family, Dukes of Devonshire. This was through his marriage to Bess of Hardwick. Henry Baynton...
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