John Savage, Mayor of Chester

Abt 1423 - 1495  (~ 72 years)

• Name	John Savage  [1]
  Suffix	Mayor of Chester
  Alternate birth	Abt 1422  [2]
  Birth	Abt 1423	of Rocksavage, Cheshire, England   [3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	of Clifton, Cheshire, England   [6]
  Death	22 Nov 1495  [2, 3, 4, 5]
  Burial	Macclesfield, Cheshire, England   [3, 4]
  Person ID	I16144	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TSW
  Last Modified	19 Apr 2022

  
  

  Father	John Savage,   b. Between 1401 and 1410, of Clifton, Cheshire, England d. 26 Jun 1463 (Age ~ 62 years)
  Mother	Eleanor Brereton
  Marriage	Bef 1423  [2, 4]
  Family ID	F9928	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Katherine Stanley   bur. Macclesfield, Cheshire, England
  Children	+ 1. John Savage   d. 18 Oct 1492, Bouteville, Poitou-Charentes, France   2. Thomas Savage, Archbishop of York   d. 3 Sep 1507, Cawood Castle, Cawood, North Yorkshire, England + 3. Ellen Savage   d. 17 May 1491, Bewganet, Sussex, England + 4. Margaret Savage   d. Aft Aug 1513
  Family ID	F9924	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Sep 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Fought at Bosworth Field. Mayor of Chester, 1484-86. Chamberlain of Middlewich. "Although there is a possibility that John (III) entered the service of the house of York, it seems more likely that it was his son Sir John (IV) Savage (c. 1423–1495) who did so. He was therefore well placed to benefit from Henry VI's deposition. John (III) served as deputy to Sir Thomas Stanley, afterwards Baron Stanley, as steward of the duchy lordship of Halton, Cheshire. John (IV) married Stanley's daughter Katherine; the couple's children were many and prominent. Aside from John (V), Savage's son and heir, there was Thomas Savage (d. 1507), who rose to be bishop of Rochester in 1492, and of London in 1497, and archbishop of York in 1501, Sir Humphrey, Lawrence, James, Sir Edmund, Christopher, William, George, and Richard. His daughters made good matches, with Ellen being married to Peter Legh of Lyme, Katherine to Thomas Legh of Adlington, Margaret to Edmund Trafford of Trafford, Lancashire, Alice to Roger Pilkington (d. 1527) , and Elizabeth to John Leek of Langford, Derbyshire. John (IV) was knighted at Elizabeth Woodville's coronation in May 1465, and although he is not always easily distinguished from his son and namesake, he probably also became a knight of the body to Edward IV, and a banneret after the Scottish campaign of 1482; he was also very prominent in local affairs in Cheshire and the north midlands. In 1484, as mayor of Chester, he presided when his sons were made freemen of the city." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below]

  
  

• Sources

  [S5947] Contributions toward a History of the Ancient Parish of Prestbury by Frank Renaud. Contained in Remains Historical and Literary Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, volume 97 (1876), published by the Chetham Society. [S1526] The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, Wife of Reverend John Owsley, Generations 1-15, Fourth Preliminary Edition, by Ronny O. Bodine and Bro. Thomas Spalding, Jr. 2013. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S413] Genealogy Page of John Blythe Dobson. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing., year only. [S77] The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester by George Ormerod. Second edition, revised and enlarged by Thomas Helsby. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882.