• Sir Thomas Bryan (died c. 30 January 1517) was an English courtier during the reign of Henry VIII. He was the son of Sir Thomas Bryan, and became vice-chamberlain...
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  • (died 1500), British justice Thomas Bryan (courtier) (died 1518), English courtier during the reign of Henry VIII Thomas Bryan (Irish republican) (1897–1921)...
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  • Sir Francis Bryan (c. 1490 – 2 February 1550) was an English courtier and diplomat during the reign of Henry VIII. He was Chief Gentleman of the Privy...
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    Elizabeth Carew (née Bryan; c. 1500 – 1546) was an English courtier and reputed mistress of King Henry VIII. A daughter of Sir Thomas Bryan and Margaret Bourchier...
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    Guy Bryan, 1st Baron Bryan, KG (born before 1319 and died 17 August 1390) was an English landowner, military and naval commander, courtier, diplomat, and...
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    Carew KG (c. 1496 – 3 March 1539), of Beddington in Surrey, was an English courtier and diplomat during the reign of King Henry VIII. He was executed for his...
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  • died 1546) was an English sixteenth-century courtier and Protestant martyr. His report to Archbishop Thomas Cranmer initiated the investigation which led...
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    and Thomas Marshe, 1568) The Favored Courtier, trans. Edward Hellowes (1563) A Looking Glasse for the Court, trans. Sir Francis Bryan and Thomas Tymme...
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    Lady Raleigh (née Throckmorton; 16 April 1565 – c. 1647), was an English courtier, a Gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth I of England. Her...
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  • Queen of England 1543–1547. Reformist. William Paulet – nobleman and courtier, at one point Master of the Court of Wards. Richard Rich – member of the...
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    London: St. Catherine Press. Gunn, S.J. (2008). Knyvet, Sir Thomas (c.1485–1512), courtier and sea captain. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Archived...
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    all of a sudden he's doing the exact same things he hated all the other courtiers for doing, and I thought that was interesting, and very human." In 2012...
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    at St John's College, Cambridge. He was first a servant of the courtier Francis Bryan, and joined the king's household in 1533 as a groom of the privy...
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    the 1607 quarto (1983), in Bryan Loughrey and Neil Taylor's edition of Five Middleton Plays (Penguin, 1988), and in Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works...
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    Thomas William Edward Coke, 5th Earl of Leicester MVO DL (16 May 1908 – 3 September 1976) was a British peer. Major Thomas William Edward Coke, 5th Earl...
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  • Sir Richard Page (died 1548) was an English courtier. He was a gentleman of the Privy Chamber at the court of Henry VIII of England, and Vice-Chamberlain...
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    in his place. Wolsey made careful moves to destroy or neutralise other courtiers' influence. He helped cause the fall of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham...
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  • Countess of Wiltshire, wife of Thomas Boleyn Stephen Gardiner John Lambert (martyr) Henry Pole, 1st Baron Montagu Thomas Wriothesley, 1st Earl of Southampton...
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    at the court of Francis I of France. For noblemen pursuing a career as courtiers, like Étienne de Vesc, it was a common early step on the ladder to higher...
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    Parliament in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. He was the son of Thomas Harley of Brampton Bryan Castle in Herefordshire and his wife Margaret, daughter of...
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  • dispute over the Ormond title and estates. Her second was Francis Bryan, a courtier and lord justice of Ireland. Her third was Gerald FitzGerald, 14th...
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    Sir Henry Guildford, KG (1489–1532) was an English courtier of the reign of King Henry VIII, master of the horse and comptroller of the royal household...
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    under the influence of Cranmer and the reformers among his tutors and courtiers, that "true" religion should be imposed in England. The English Reformation...
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    Dubh de Buitléir, Iarla Urmhamhan; c. 1531 – 1614), was an influential courtier in London at the court of Elizabeth I. He was Lord Treasurer of Ireland...
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    and plot with her enemies. Her policy there was to grant land to her courtiers and prevent the rebels from giving Spain a base from which to attack England...
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    likelihood of his succession to the English throne. William Alexander and other courtier poets started to anglicise their written language, and followed the king...
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  • depicted in flashback, while the dying Henry is surrounded by his family and courtiers. Henry's first queen is the Spanish princess Catherine of Aragon. The...
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  • 3rd Earl Brownlow (1844–1921), British soldier, courtier and Conservative politician Adelbert Bryan (fl. 1980s–2000s), U.S. Virgin Islands politician...
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    The use of the Duchy of Somerset must have struck a chord among the courtiers, as it was well known that the Beauforts' eldest child was John Somerset...
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    Lady Philadelphia Carey (died 1654) was an English courtier. Philadelphia Carey was a daughter of Robert Carey, 1st Earl of Monmouth and Elizabeth Trevannion...
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