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Sir Francis Bryan as played by Alan Van Sprang
c. 1490? - February 2, 1550

Character's backstory:

Gentility: knighted courtier

Position: Chief Gentleman of the Privy Chamber under King Henry VIII, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland and Vice Admiral of the fleet under King Edward VI

Personality type: an infamous rake and libertine

Signature look: eye patch, lost an eye in a joust in 1526

Endearing trait(s):

Annoying trait(s): morally flexible to whatever the King wishes, which is why he survives to die from natural causes, decided to turn on his second cousin Anne Boleyn and help Thomas Cromwell dispose of her		 Sample Character Profile - Site Templates


'Vicar of Hell'

N. Sander, Rise and Growth of the Anglican Schism ( 1877), p. 24, records that Sir Francis Bryan 'was once asked by the king to tell him what sort of sin it was to ruin the mother and then the child'. Bryan replied 'that it was a sin like that of eating a hen first and its chicken afterwards'. The king burst forth into loud laughter and said to Bryan, 'Well, you certainly
are my vicar of hell'. Also Cromwell, in a friendly letter to Bryan, calls him 'the vicar of hell'.

But Bryan was a hard-working diplomat, to whom Thomas Wyatt addressed one of his satires, and one suspects that his nickname should not be taken too seriously.

CHARACTER CONNECTIONS


Family members and kin:
A second cousin of Anne Boleyn's through their great-grandmother Elizabeth Tilney, he was also related to Jane Seymour
Father: Sir Thomas Bryan
Mother: Lady Margaret Bryan, nee Bourchier (Lady Governess to Henry VIII's children)
Sister: Margaret Bryan
Sister: Elizabeth Bryan (wife of Nicolas Carew)


Romance(s):

First marriage: Phillipa Spice (daughter of Sir Humphrey Spice)
Son: Edmund Bryan

Second marriage: Joan Fitzgerald, Countess of Desmond
Son: Sir Francis Bryan
Daughter: Elizabeth Bryan

Friends:


Enemies:



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