Individual Details
(1493 - 1524)
Notes: was already married to John Denton or Dentonys, about whom nothing is known, when she entered the household of Henry VII’s children as mistress of the nursery to Prince Henry in 1496. Later she was Princess Mary’s governess. She may be the Mistress Denton who accompanied Princess Margaret to Scotland, returning when King James reduced the number of English attendants Margaret was allowed to keep with her. David Loades identifies her as the first Lady Mistress of the nursery of Henry VIII's daughter Mary. In May 1515, by then a widow, she was granted a annuity of £50 per annum "for service to the late King and Queen". By Nov 1517, Margaret Bryan was in charge of Mary Tudor's nursery. In 1518, Elizabeth Denton erected a tomb to herself. She lived in some comfort in the Blackfriars Precinct until her death. Philippa Jones’s The Other Tudors: Henry VIII’s Mistresses and Bastards makes the extraordinary claim that Elizabeth Denton was Henry’s first lover and even suggests that his grandmother, Margaret Beaufort, selected her for him.
Events
| Birth | 1493 | Hoyland, West Yorkshire, England | | | |
| Marriage | 1507 | Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom - James DENTON II, Dean of Lichfield | | | |
| Death | 1524 | Halifax, West Yorkshire, England | | | |
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