Family Connections
Margaret Bryan could boast royal Plantagenet bloodlines for herself through her paternal great-grandmother, Anne of Woodstock, Countess of Buckingham, who was herself the granddaughter of King Edward III. Closer in time, after the death of Sir Humphrey Bourchier, Margaret's mother, Elizabeth, married Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, becoming Duchess of Norfolk. Elizabeth had a number of children in her second marriage, including Lady Elizabeth Howard, mother of Anne Boleyn; Henry VIII's second queen, and Lord Edmund Howard, the father of Katherine Howard; the fifth queen of King Henry VIII. This connection made Margaret an aunt to both Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard as well as a member of the wider circle of kin and dependents around the Howard family.
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