Margaret Bryan

Margaret Bryan, Baroness Bryan (s. 1468 – s. 1551/52) adalah pengasuh dari anak-anak Henry VIII: Putri Mary, Putri Elizabeth, Henry FitzRoy dan Pangeran Edward.^[1] Ia lahir dengan nama Margaret Bourchier pada sekitar tahun 1468 di Beningbrough, Yorkshire, England. Ibunya adalah Elizabeth Tilney dan ayahnya adalah Sir Humphrey Bourchier, yang gugur dalam Pertempuran Barnet pada 14 April 1471.

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↑ She was also Lady Governess to Henry's illegitimate but acknowledged son Henry FitzRoy, assuming her words of "When my lady Mary was born it pleased the King’s grace [to make] me lady mistress, and made me a baroness, and so I have been a m [other to the] children his grace have had since" are correct and her grammar is not incorrect as Henry VIII had no children between Mary and Elizabeth. 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 Spear and the Spindle: Ancestors of Sir Francis Bryan (D.1550) by Terry A. Fuller
Susan Brigden, ‘Bryan, Sir Francis (d. 1550)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, January 2008) , accessed 28 August 2008