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362 BRYAN ist s. and h. ap., Sir Guy de Bryan, junior, by his wife Elizabeth afsd. He, who d. v.p., 1386, Inq. p. m. 9 Ric. II (1385/6), m. Alice, who was living 8 July 1387, and was executrix to her father-in-law 27 Jan. 1393/4. Richard Stafford, and had issue Avice, who became the wife of James Butler, Earl of Ormond [I.], but d. s.p., 35 Hen. VI (1456), at which date the Barony of Bryan has been presumed to have become extinct. We know, however, that Guy de B. had other children, (i) Sir William de B., his 2nd s. d. s.p. 22 Sep. 1395, and was hur. at Seal, Kent. M.I. He left a widow Joan. (2) Philip, his 3rd s., d. s.p. before 14 Feb. 1388, the abovementioned Philippe and Elizabeth being found heirs to both their uncles. (3) Margaret was in 1361 wife of Hugh de Courtenay, grandson of the Earl of Devon {C/ose Roll, 35 Edw. Ill, m. 31 d), which Hugh d. s.p. 20 Feb. 1373/4. There was at least one other child. See ante, p. 201, note " b." It is to be observed that the Earls of Northumberland, from the marriage with Eleanor, granddaughter and heiress of Robert, Lord Poynings, styled themselves Barons Poynings, Fitz-Payne, and Bryan, probably owing to the fact as stated by Dugdalc, Vincent, and other authorities, that Richard, Lord Poynings, father of the said Robert, Lord Poynings, m. " Isabel, da. and h. of Robert [Grey, afterwards Fiiz Payn], Baron Fitz-Payne [so styled], by Elizabeth, da. and h. of Sir Guy de Bryan, Knt." The dates show that this Elizabeth cannot be the da. of Sir Guy de ^.junior mentioned in the text, for inquisitions make her to be aged 4 years 9 Ric. II (1385/6), and 10 years of age 14 Ric. II (1390/1), whilst Isabel, her presumed child, is stated to be 30 years of age 16 Ric. 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. Ill, 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, or to any other Barony of Bryan." See Nicolas, reproduced by Courthope. It is stated in Banks' Baronia Anglica, vol. i, p. 1 38, that " Sir Guy de Bryan, the Baron, had two sisters, viz.. Elizabeth, who m. Robert Fitz-Pain, and Philippa who wedded Sir John Chandos, neither of whom could have any pretensions to the Barony as not being descended from the Baron. The attributing the Barony of Bryan to the Percy family is [therefore] erroneous, but had the Barony been one descendible to the house of Percy, it would with the Barony of Percy, i3c., have fallen into abey- ance [if indeed not under attainder] between the 5 daughters and coheiresses [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. Neither Nicolas, Courthope, nor Banks, appears to have considered the hypothesis that the Elizabeth through whom the Earls of Northumberland claimed the Barony of Bryan may have been da. of Sir Guy de B. who was sum. in 1350, and sister (and, if so, evidently an elder sister of the half-blood) of the sons abovementioned. It is calculated to give some support to the pedigree on which the Northumberland claim is based, that, Robert Fitz Payn is a party to a settlement made upon the aforementioned William and Philip, younger sons of the man sum. in 1 350. {Somerset Fines; and see also Hutchins' Dorset, citing Close Roll of 12 Ric. II). Moreover in Materials illus- trative of the Reign of Henry VH, vol. ii, pp. 380-83, there is an enrolment dated 16 Dec. 1488, of an "agreement made by the Earl of Northumberland, the Earl of Ormond, Edward Ponynges Knt., and Thomas Seymour Knt., for the settlement of their contentions respecting . . . the hereditaments which were sometime of Sir Guy de Brien Knyght." " Dame Aviss Countesse of Wiltes, than ryght heire