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Margaret Bryan (c. 1468 - c. 1551/52) was Lady Governess to Henry VIII's children: Princess Mary, Princess Elizabeth and Prince Edward.〔She may also have been Lady Governess to Henry's illegitimate but acknowledged son Henry FitzRoy as has been stated - without supporting evidence - in an earlier version of this page. If she had responsibility also for Henry FitzRoy that would have made her tenure as Mary's Lady Governess fairly short. Henry was born 15 June 1519, less than two and a half years after Mary. She was Lady Governess to Elizabeth for four years.〕 The position of Lady Governess in her day resembled less that of the popular modern idea of a governess, more that of a nanny. She was born Margaret Bourchier in about 1468 in Beningbrough, Yorkshire, England. Her mother was Elizabeth Tilney and her father was Sir Humphrey Bourchier, who was killed at the Battle of Barnet on 14 April 1471 during the series of dynastic civil wars known as the Wars of the Roses.〔(See Peerage.com Ref i179938 )〕 Humphrey Bourchier was heir to the title Baron Berners but having predeceased his father, Margaret's brother John instead succeeded to the title as second Baron Berners. Humphrey Bourchier and Elizabeth Tilney had one further daughter who survived to adulthood. Margaret's younger sister was Anne Bourchier (1470–1530) who married Thomas Fiennes, 8th Lord Dacre〔(See Peerage.com Ref i28719 )〕 in 1492. Their son, also Thomas, was the 9th Lord Dacre who was executed for murder in 1541. ==Marriages== Margaret Bourchier was married three times. Her first husband, with whom there may only have been a marriage agreement (a ‘pre-contract’), was Sir John Sandes (or Sandys). The marriage agreement was signed when Margaret was 10 or 11 years old on 11 November 1478.〔Douglas Richardson, Thread: 'Complete Peerage Additions/Corrections: Margaret Bourgchier, Lady Bryan', Rootsweb.Ancestry.com (Mail dated 5 Apr 2007) (), accessed 30 March 2009〕 Pre-contracts were not unusual among the Tudor period aristocracy and gentry, and it need not have resulted in a consummated marriage.〔See for example the comments on pre-contract marriages in ''Woman under the English law, from the landing of the Saxons to the present time'', Arthur Rackham Cleveland p132 & p217 ()〕 She married Sir Thomas Bryan sometime before 1490. Margaret Bryan was a Lady-in-Waiting to Catherine of Aragon and was present at Catherine's wedding to Henry VIII in 1509.〔'Henry VIII: June 1509, 16-30 ', Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 1: 1509-1514 (1920), pp. 36-55. ("Lady Bryan" ) Date accessed: 31 March 2009〕 Margaret Bryan claimed〔〔 to have been made Baroness Bryan ''suo jure'' on 18 February 1516, upon the birth of Princess Mary, when she was appointed as Mary's Lady Governess. Sir Thomas Bryan died sometime before 1517,〔(See Peerage.com Ref i179939 )〕 and Margaret Bryan married her final husband, David Souche (or Zoche) in or before 1519. In July 1519, there is a record in the archives of Henry VIII's court that notes the payment of an annuity of 50 pounds to "MARGARET BRYAN, widow of Sir Thomas Bryan, and now wife of David Soche." The annuity paid "for services to the King and queen Katharine" included "one tun of Gascon wine yearly, out of the wine received for the King's use."〔Henry VIII: July 1519, 1-15', Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 3: 1519-1523 (1867), pp. 121-136. ("margaret bryan" ) Date accessed: 31 March 2009.〕 David Souche may have died in 1526〔(See Peerage.com Ref i180089 )〕 or in 1536.〔"Margaret, lady Brian, was the widow of Sir Thomas Brian, and having been made, as here stated, a baroness (though the fact is not noticed by our Peerage Historians), she was still called lady Brian after she had taken as her second husband David Soche. See Vol. III., No. 361. Apparently, this letter was written on David Soche's death." Footnote 1 to: 'Henry VIII: August 1536, 1-5', Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 11: July–December 1536 (1888), pp. 90-103. ("Lady Bryan" ) Date accessed: 31 March 2009.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Margaret Bryan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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