Elizabeth Bryan

  General Notes:

~The Visitations of the County of Surrey Made and Taken in the Years 1530, p. 17,Sir Nicholas Carew, son of Sir Richard Carew and Maud de Oxenbridge, Sir Nicholas Carew, Knight married Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Bryan, Knight, Sir Nicholas and Elizabeth were the parents of Mary who married Sir Arthur Darcy. ¹⁰⁴⁸

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ¹¹⁸³
Sir Nicholas Carew married Elizabeth, daughter and heir for Sir Thomas Bryan, son and heir of Sir Thomas Bryan, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and had by her one son, Sir Francis, and four daughters; Elizabeth, wife of a gentleman named Hall; Mary, married to Sir Arthur Darcy, second son of Thomas Lord Darcy of the North; Anne, first to Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, of Paulesperry in Northampton; and Isabella, married to Nicholas Saunders, son and heir of Sir William Saunders.

"Sir Nicholas Carew," Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain, Vol. I, pp. 131-132

• Web Reference: Lady Elizabeth Bryan.
Elizabeth, Lady Carew, was an English courtier and reputed mistress of Henry VIII. She was the daughter of Sir Thomas Bryan and his wife, Margaret, daughter of Sir Humphrey Bourchier. Elizabeth married Sir Nicholas Carew, close friend of Henry VIII, and an influential statesman who was eventually executed for his alleged involvement in the Exeter Conspirary.

Elizabeth married Sir Nicholas Carew Knight of the Garter, son of Sir Richard Carew Knight and Malyn Oxenbridge, in 1514.¹¹⁷⁴ (Sir Nicholas Carew Knight of the Garter was born by 1496 in Devonshire, England ¹¹⁷⁴ and died on 3 Mar 1539 in London, Middlesex, England ¹¹⁸³.)