Sir Thomas Bryan, II, Kt.

• Son of Thomas Bryan, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Margaret Bowsey
• Thomas Bryan III was knighted by Henry VII in 1497, was 'knight of the body' at the opening of Henry VIII's reign, and repeatedly served on the commission of the peace for Buckinghamshire, where the family property was settled.
• Birth: June 01, 1464 in Cheddington, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, England
• Death: January 30, 1517 (52) in Cheddington, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire, England
• Place of Burial: St. Giles Churchyard Cheddington, Aylesbury Vale District, Buckinghamshire, England.
• Thomas Bryan II Find A Grave Memorial

Married

• Married: Lady Margaret BOURCHIER, ABT 1487, Benningborough, Yorkshire, England, daughter of Sir Humphrey Bourchier and Elizabeth Tilney, Countess of Surrey

Children

• Margaret BRYAN, married Knight Henry Guildford,
• Elizabeth BRYAN, married Sir Nicholas Carew, KG, Master of the Horse
• Francis BRYAN (Sir Knight Lord Chief Justice of Ireland) married (1) Phillipa Spice and (2) Joan Fitzgerald, Duchess of Ormond
• Ann BRYAN, is listed as a daughter in The Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, page 285,
• Thomas Bryan, per the Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, page 285, Francis Bryan had a brother Thomas who died before 1508 and was buried in Ashridge chapel.

Source (1) Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, page 285 - https://books.google.com/books?id=8JcbV309c5UC&pg=PA286&lpg=PA286&d...

Source (2) The Tudor Place - http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/BOURCHIER1.htm#Margaret%20BOURCHIER1

Thomas Bryan (courtier), by Wikipedia

Thomas Bryan was an English courtier during the reign of Henry VIII. His wife, Margaret Bryan was governess to the King's four acknowledged children, Mary, Elizabeth, Edward and his illegitimate son, Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset. She impressed the King so much, he made her Baroness Bryan in her own right. They had three children, Margaret, Francis and Elizabeth .

Francis was a close friend of the King's and of his brother-in-law, Nicholas Carew. As Baroness Bryan was the half-sister of Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire and the mother of the King's mistress Mary Boleyn and his second wife Anne Boleyn, fortunes imroved for the Bryan family during the 1520s and early 1530s. But it was not only Thomas Bryan's nieces by marriage who attracted the King, but his daughter, Elizabeth Carew, also. Elizabeth was linked to Henry from 1514 and was said to have been given jewels by Henry VIII that technically belonged to the queen, Katherine of Aragon.

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Bryan_(courtier)
• http://www.carsonjohnson.com/chapter07-bryan.htm
• http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/FrancisBryan(JusticeofIreland).htm
• http://www.thepeerage.com/p17994.htm
• https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Thomas_Bryan_%28cour...
• http://www.ilonaco.com/b24.htm#P1163

Sources

• Citations: [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 363. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• The Knights of England. A complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, page 40 -https://archive.org/stream/knightsofengland02shawuoft#page/n39/mode...