Robert Bryan

Not a known child of Sir Francis Bryan, KB, ‘The Vicar of Hell’ & Phillipa Bryan

From http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1509-1558/member/br...

Bryan’s marriage to the widow of the 9th Earl of Ormond was probably a political match designed to prevent her marriage to the Desmond heir, a union which in the event it merely postponed. In November 1548 Bryan arrived in Dublin to take up the office of lord marshal: a year later he was made lord justice pending the arrival of a new lord deputy to replace (Sir) Edward Bellingham, who had resented his appointment, but on 2 Feb. 1550 he died suddenly at Clonmel from an unknown cause. If he made a will it has not been found and nothing is known of the disposition of his lands, most of which appear to have been held on lease. His son, who is mentioned as carrying a despatch to London in 1548 from the French admiral, was illegitimate.15

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See the notes on p. 362 in The Complete Peerage, 2nd ed. vol. 2 https://archive.org/stream/completepeerageo02coka#page/362/mode/2up
It looks like the author of Colonial Families, may have just put lots of different families with the Bryan surname together, which was pretty common during that time. Also Tor Bryan or Brian went to the heirs of these 2 sisters, so Edmund, Robert, and the two John Bryants if they existed at all, can't have been of Tor Brian.

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http://knightsdebryan.freeservers.com/vicar/sfb4.htm

(7) Timeline:

Sir Francis Bryan's son Robert Bryant (1532-1580) was born and lived in Kent until his mother Phillipa (born Spice) Bryant died in 1534. Peerage of Ireland records show that Sir Francis Bryan and Joan Fitzgerald had no issue/children with each other and Sir Francis did not live but a years after marrying Joan, a marriage at the behest of Sir Francis' friend King Henry VIII. Robert was born in 1532 many years before Sir Francis Bryan married Joan Fitzgerald by 29 Aug 1548.