John Savage, Mayor of Chester

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• Alternate birth: of Clifton, Cheshire, England
• Alternate birth: Abt 1422

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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]

Family/Spouse: Katherine Stanley. Katherine (daughter of Thomas Stanley and Joan Goushill) was buried in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. John Savage died on 18 Oct 1492 in Bouteville, Poitou-Charentes, France; was buried in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England.
2. Thomas Savage, Archbishop of York died on 3 Sep 1507 in Cawood Castle, Cawood, North Yorkshire, England; was buried in York Cathedral, York, Yorkshire, England.
3. Ellen Savage died on 17 May 1491 in Bewganet, Sussex, England.
4. Margaret Savage died after Aug 1513.

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• Alternate death: 29 Jun 1463

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Chamberlain of Middlewich. Bailiff of the Forest of Macclesfield. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (citation details below), he extended Savage interests by obtaining a stake in the Middlewich salt industry. He was never knighted.

John married Eleanor Brereton before 1423. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Ormerod and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography both call her Elizabeth Brereton.

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Bailiff of the Forest of Macclesfield. Constable of Halton Castle. Esquire to Henry, Prince of Wales. Fought at Agincourt, emerging from the battle as a banneret.

"Sir John (II) Savage (d. 1450) achieved success in royal service. Like his father, he served in France: Froissart records his complaint in 1390 at the tournament of St Inglevert that he had not crossed the sea merely to run one lance. Under Richard II he was appointed keeper of the park of Macclesfield, along with Piers Legh of Macclesfield. Yet he made the transition to the Lancastrian allegiance: soon after Bolingbroke's accession, Savage was granted a fee and in the first year of the reign he led troops in Henry IV's Scottish campaign. John (II) consolidated his interest around Macclesfield, receiving a lease of its mills in 1408, and he was often a justice on eyre in Cheshire. Knighted at Agincourt, in 1418 John (II) led 250 Cheshire men to Calais; he also received significant rewards from a ransom." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below]

John married Maud Swynnerton before 1401. Maud (daughter of Robert de Swynnerton and Elizabeth de Beke) was born about 1370; died between 8 Jun 1414 and 1424. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Bef 1428

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Shortly after the death of her first husband, Humphrey Peshale (d. <1388), she was abducted by John de Ipstones, described in several places as a notorious bully, and forced to marry John's son William Ipstones and convey her property to him.

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• Alternate birth: 1350, of Brereton, Egerton, Cheshire, England

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Governor of Caen. Sheriff of Cheshire, 1407-08.

William married Anyll de Venables in 1386 in Audlem, Cheshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Being related to her husband in the 4th degree, they received a dispensation from Pope Urban VI through Richard de Dounes, prior of the Carmelites of Chester, in consequence of the services of Sir William in the crusade against Enrique, King of Castile." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, citation details below.]

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• Alternate birth: of Clifton, Cheshire, England

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"John Savage had risen to prominence in the service of Edward, the Black Prince, in France: one of the remaining garrison commanders after 1369 when the days of large-scale musters had passed, he held Salveterre in 1373." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, citation details below]

John married Margaret Danyers between 1375 and 1376. Margaret (daughter of Thomas Danyers and Isabel Baggiley) was born about 2 May 1348; died on 24 Jun 1428. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1427

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Also called Margaret Daniers, Daniell.

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• Alternate birth: of Over Tayne, Staffordshire, England

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Pardoned for outlawry, 1370. Knight of the shire for Staffordshire, 1378. He was probably killed by the fall of a tower at Brest in Brittany, while in the retinue of John of Gaunt.

Robert married Elizabeth de Beke before 1357. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called de Beek.

William married Ellen de Egerton. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Between 1379 and 1380
• Alternate death: Between 1382 and 1383
• Alternate death: Bef 18 Apr 1382

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Sheriff of Cheshire 1378.

Hugh married Margery de Cotton. Margery (daughter of Hugh de Cotton and Isabel de Hayton) died after Feb 1398. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz gives her father as Hugh Cotton of Rudheth, but says her mother is unknown.