Paternal Bryant Genealogy: From Sir Guy de Brienne to Cordis Bryant

16th Generation: Sir Francis Bryan

• Sir Francis was born on June 1, 1490, at Cheddington, Buckinghamshire.
• Married Phillippa Spice who had a son from a previous marriage named Henry Fortescue. Sir Francis adopted him.
• Second wife was Lady Joan Butler Fitzgerald. He and Joan had one son together: Francis.
• Sir Francis served as the chief gentlemen of the Privy Chamber and Lord Justice of Ireland for Henry VIII. He lost one eye in a joust. Sir Francis spent part of his youth in the household of Sir Thomas Parr (Anne Boleyn’s cousin).
• Sir Francis died on February 2, 1550, (60 years old) in Clonmel, Ireland. He told John Allen, the Irish Chancellor present at his death, to take care for his son.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonmel

16th generation: Lady Joan Butler Fitzgerald

• Lady Joan was born in 1509 in Desmond, Ireland.
• She married Sir Francis. She was his second wife. She was known as the Countess of Ormond.
• Her father was James Fitzgerald, 10th Earl of Desmond.
• Francis and Joan had one son together: Francis born in 1549.
• After Sir Francis died, she left Ireland. She died in 1565 (56 years old) in Cheddington, England.