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 BRYAN— ERYN. 45 hit) Barony fell into ahcyanec between his two grandaughteTs and cnheirs,(«) children of his 1st s. and h. ap., Sir Guy de Bryan, junior, who (/. v.p. 1380. i;RYAX. Barony. £. Damk Makgarbt Bhyan, soon after the birth (18 Feb. 1515/0) of Mary ^afterwards Queen Mary), da, of Henry VIII., I. L r >lG, had the care of her person, US '"Lady Mistress" and was, according to her own account, made a Baroness (BARONESS BRYAN ?) by the King.('') She held the Kamo office, and was subsequently "Governess" lJ5i>l-02. to Klizabeth, afterwards (juccn Elizabeth. Her husband. Sir Thomas Bryan of Chedingtoo, Bucks, before 1517. His will dat. 1 Oct. 1508, WW pr. 30 Jany. 1517. She was sister nf John, Loan BwtNKits, da. of Sir Humphrey RouHi'HlKlt, by Elizabeth, da. of Sir Frederick Tyi.sey, afterwards DuCHgSS OP NORFOLK, She d. 1551-52, leaving issue, when her Peerage, which, if ever conferred, was probably only for life, was no more heard of.( c ) See "Gerard ov Bryn, «>. Lancaster," Barony ; tar. 1576. (») These were, in 1390, " Philippa, iot. 18, and Elizabeth, a?t. 10. The said Philippa m. firstly John Uevereux, and 2ndly Sir Henry Le Scrope, but. d. s.p. 8 Hen. IV. ; Klizabeth became the wife of Sir Hobert Lovel), Knt,, by whom she had a da. and sole h. Maud, who m. firstly John, Earl of Arundel, and by him had Humphrey, Karl of Arundel, who died infra atatein, s.p. ; the said Maud m. 2ndly Sir Richard Staflbnl, Knt., and had issvie A vice, who became the wife of James Butler, Earl of Ormond, [1] but died s.p. 35 Hen. VI. ( 1 150), when the Barony of Bryan is presumed to have become cr'inrf. It is to be observed that the Earls of Northumberland, from having m. Eleanor, grandda. and heiress of Hobert, Lord Poynings, styled themselves Barons Poynings, Fitz-Payiic, and Bryan, probably from the statement gives by Dugdale, Vincent and other good authorities, that Richard. Lord 1'oyniuga, father of the said Robert, Lord Poynings, in. ' Isabel, da. and h. of Robeit, Baron Fitz-payue, by Elizabeth, da. and h. Sf Sir Guy de Bryan, Knt.' On reference, however, to several inquisitions, it would appear that Elizabeth, da and coheir of Sir Guy de Bryan, was ageil 4 years 9 Rich, it (1385-0), anil 10 years o{ age 14 Rich. II. (1390-1), whilst Isabel, her presumed child, is stated to be 30 years of age 10 Rich. II. (1392-3) ; nor does it appear that any alliance ever took place between the descendants of Guy de Bryan, who was sum. to Pari. 24 Edw. III., and the family of Fitz-Payne, which could warrant such assumption, and hence [it is evident] that the Earls of Northumberland never had the, slightest pretensions to the Barony of Bryan created by that writ, ov to any- other Barony of Bryan." See " Nicolas," reproduced by " Courthope." It is stated in Banks' '' Baronia Anglica " vol. i. p. 13S, that " Sir Guy de Bryan, the Baron, had two sisters, viz, Elizabeth who Hi. Robert Fitz-Pain, and Philippa who wedded Sir John Chimdos, neither of whom could have any pretensions to the Barony as not being descende d from the Baron. The attributing the Barony of Bryan to the Percy family is [therefore] erroneous, but had the Barony been one descendable to the house of Percy, it would with the Barony of Percy, &c., have fallen into abeyance [if indeed not under attainder] between the 5 daughters and co-heiresses [of the 7th Earl of Northumberland] from none of which the present Duke is descended." See also " Coll. Top. et Gen." Vol. III. pp. 250-278. (°) Letter, not dated, in "Ellis" 2 series ii, p. 79. This statement is noted by Horace Walpole in his " Noble Authors." (°) Her a. and h., Sir Francis Bryan, who, thro' the re-marriage of his grandmother (as above), was cousin to the I>uke of Norfolk and consequently to Queen Anne Boleyn, was conspicuous by the base way he abandoned her cause. He d., when Lord Justice in Ireland, 2nd Feb. 1519/50. Sec Stephen's "Nat, Biography."