Joyce Culpeper was born to Sir Richard Culpeper and Isabel Worsley in 1480, and went on to marry twice, the second time to the noble, Lord Edmund Howard.
Joyce Culpeper, born about 1480, was the daughter of Sir Richard Culpeper (d. 4 October 1484) and his second wife, Isabel Worsley (born c. 1460  18 April 1527), the daughter of Otewell Worsley of Southwark, Surrey, by Rose Trevor. Before 1492 Joyce Culpeper married Ralph Leigh (d. 6 November 1509), esquire, the younger brother of her stepfather, Sir John Leigh (d. 17 August 1523). Ralph Leigh died 6 November 1509, and Joyce Culpeper married Lord Edmund Howard, and by him had three sons and three daughters: Howard spent his early years at court, and in 1509 he was listed as one of the noblemen who organized the jousts for the joint coronation of Henry VIII and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon. 
