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BRYAN 361 BRYAN or BRIENE BARONY BY i. Guy de Bryan, s. and h. of Sir Guy de B., ofWal- WRIT. wyns Castle, co. Pembroke, and of Tor Brian, Devon, served in the wars with Scotland, Flanders, and France; I. 1350 was made Gov. of St. Briavel's Castle and Warden of the to Forest of Dean 1341 till his death; sue. his father in 1349, 1390. being then 30 years old and more, and had the temporary custody of the Great Seal in that year. On 15 Jan. 1349/50 he had a grant of 200 marks /).rt. for bearing the King's Standard against his enemies of France at Calais. He was sum. to Parl.(^) from 25 Nov. (1350) 24 Edw. Ill to 6 Dec. (1389) 13 Ric. II, by writs directed Guidoni de Bryan, whereby he is held to have become LORD BRYAN. C") He was constantly entrusted with martial and diplomatic affairs of the highest im- portance.(') Ini36i he was Ambassador to the Pope; in 1369 was Admiral of the Fleet, i^c. On the death (3 1 Dec. 1369) of the renowned Chandos he was nom. K.G. in his room. He appears to have »;., istly, before 1343/4, Ann, or Alice, da. and h. of William Holway, of Holway, Devon, but she possibly was his father's wife.('^) He m., in 1349 or 1350 and before 10 July 1350, presumably as his 2nd wite,() Elizabeth, Q widow of Hugh [Lord] le Despenser (who d. 8 Feb. 1348/9), and before that of Giles [Lord] Badles- MERE (who d. 1338), and da. of William (Montagu), ist Earl of Salis- bury, by Catherine, da. of William [Lord] Grandson. She^. 31 May 1359, at Ashley, Hants, and was bur. in Tewkesbury Abbey.(^) Liq. p. m. June (1359) 33 Edw. III. He d. 17 Aug. 1390, and was also bur. there. M.I. Inq.p. m. (1390-1) 14 Ric. II. On his death any Barony that may be held to have been cr. by the writ of 1350, fell (according to modern doctrine) into abeyance between his two granddaughters and coheirSjC") children of his i^) There is proof in the rolls of Pari, of his sitting. (*■) As to how far these early writs of summons did in fact create any peerage title, see Appendix A in the last volume. V.G. if) Richard, Earl of Arundel, Guy de Briane of Chastel Guyon, and William de Thorpe "chivalers," were appointed plenipotentiaries to treat with Wenceslav (Wenzel), Duke of Luxemburg, [Lower] Lorraine, Brabant, and Limburg, 22 May 1358. V.G. (f) Guy de Brian, King's yeoman (vaUttus), and Alice his wife, were living 27 Jan. 1343/4. {Patent Roll). V.G. (*) At that date a man in his position was exceedingly unlikely to wait till he was over 30 before marrying. V.G. (') This lady is sometimes wrongly said to have d. before 1342, in the lifetime of her husband, Lord le Despenser. — See ante, vol. i, p. 373, suh " Badlesmere." (f) Tewkesbury Chron. C") These were, in 1390, Philippe, aged I2, and Elizabeth, aged 10. The said Philippe m., istly, John de Ros, and 2ndly, Sir Henry le Scrope, but d. s.p., 8 Hen. IV; Elizabeth became the wife of Sir Robert Lovell, by whom she had a da. and sole h., Maud, who m., istly, John, Earl of Arundel, and by him had Humphrey, Earl of Arundel, who died under age, s.p.; the said Maud m., 2ndly, Sir 47