Sir John Savage IV of Clifton, K.G.

Knighted by Henry VI in 1477. The Savage family were important Cheshire landowners from the late 1370s, when the family acquired lands at Clifton by the marriage of John Savage (d. 1386) to Margaret Danyers.[1] Sir John Savage (d. 1597/8) was the seneschal of Halton Castle, and also served at various times as a member of parliament for Cheshire, mayor of Chester and High Sheriff of Cheshire.[1][2] Rocksavage was built for him on a hillside overlooking the River Weaver. Started in around 1565, the house was completed in 1568.[3][4][5][6] Rocksavage was one of the great Elizabethan "prodigy houses" of Cheshire.[7][8] Hearth-tax assessments of 1674 show that it was the second largest house in the county, its fifty hearths being surpassed only by Cholkmondeley House.[9] An early 17th century description praised the mansion's "magnificent fabric".[10] The medieval family seat of Clifton Hall stood nearby, and was retained as farm and service buildings.[2][9] James I dined at Rocksavage with his retinue on 21 August 1617 on his way to Vale Royal Abbey and Chester.[10] During the Civil War, John Savage, Earl Rivers, declared for the royalist side. Rocksavage was ransacked by parliamentarian forces, and the roof and part of the walls were destroyed.[8] The first Duke of Monmouth stayed at Rocksavage on 13 September 1682 as a guest of Thomas Savage, Earl Rivers, while touring Cheshire to assess support for a faction opposed to Charles II.[2][11]

The most interesting monument in St. Michael's Church, Macclesfield, is the one on the south side of the chancel. It is a splendid altar tomb or alabaster, on which are the recumbent figures of a "Knight and his Ladye." The knight's feet rest on a dog. In the lady's headdress, which is extremely rich, the letters I.H.S. are frequently repeated. The knight's represents Sir John Savage, and the lady's Katharine, his wife, daughter of Sir Thomas, first Lord Stanley, of Knowsley, parents of Archbishop Savage, who founded the adjoining chapel. This Sir John Savage served the office of Mayor of Chester, and died 11, Henry VII., aged 73 years.

PIctures of the tomb of Sir John Savage, and the lady's Katharine, his wife, daughter of Sir Thomas, first Lord Stanley, of Knowsley, at St. Michael's Church, Macclesfield, Cheshire at http://www.thornber.net/cheshire/htmlfiles/maccstmichaels.html

Name: John [IV @] de Savage

• Sex: M
• Birth: 1422 in Clifton, Cheshire, England
• Death: 22 NOV 1495 in Macclesfield Pk., England
• Father: Sir John [III @] de Savage b: 1403 in Clifton, Cheshire, England
• Mother: Eleanor or Elizabeth [@] de Brereton b: ABT 1406 in England
• Marriage 1 Catherine [@] de Stanley b: 1430 in Stanley, Derbyshire,England
  • Married: BEF 1447 in Clinton, Cheshire, England
• Children
  • Ellen Savage b: ABT 1430 (? if child of his & Katherine (Stanley) Savage as Katherine would have been around 2y/o--PScoggin, 5/9/19)
  • Eleanor [@] Savage b: 1447 in Prob Clifton, Cheshire, England
  • Lawrence [@] Savage b: 1449 in Clifton, Cheshire, England
  • Margaret [@] Savage b: 1450 in Clinton, Cheshire, England
  • James [@] Savage b: 1451 in Clifton, Cheshire, England
  • John [V @] de Savage b: 1452 in Clifton, Cheshire, England
  • Dau [@] Savage b: 1453 in Clifton, Cheshire, England
  • Elizabeth [@] Savage b: 1454 in Clifton, Cheshire, England
  • Alice [@] de Savage b: 1457 in Clifton, Cheshire, England
  • Katherine [@] Savage b: 1458 in Clifton, Cheshire, England
  • Thomas [@] Savage b: 1463 in Clifton, Cheshire, England
  • Humphrey [@] Savage b: 1465 in Clifton, Cheshire, England
  • Richard [@] Savage b: 1467 in Clifton, Cheshire, England
  • William [@] Savage b: 1468 in Clifton, Cheshire, England
  • George [@] Savage b: 1471 in Clifton, Cheshire, England
  • Sir Christopher [Sr @] Savage b: 1473 in Clifton, Rock Sabage, Cheshire, England
  • Edward [@] Savage b: 1475 in Clifton, Cheshire, England
  • Margaret [@] Savage b: 1485

Source:

• http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db...

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From: http://www.stepneyrobarts.co.uk/15244.htm

The fourth John Savage was knighted by Henry VI.

• He was a Mayor of Chester, held offices connected with the Royal Manor and Forest of Macclesfield, and Henry VI made him one of the "feofees" or trustees of the Duchy of Lancaster.
• He was married to the daughter of Lord Stanley.
  • One of his sons, Thomas, eventually became Archbishop of York, and was buried there in 1508, his heart alone being buried in Macclesfield.
  • The eldest son of the fourth Sir John Savage never lived to inherit the estates because he died during his father's lifetime.
  • He was a warlike character, a Knight of the Garter, having fought at the Battle of Bosworth.
  • He was killed during the siege of "Boloigne".

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John Savage K>G> of Chifton and Rocksavage co. Chester,Knight of the Body of Chamberlain of Middlewich,

• born about 1423 ( age 40 in 1463)
• He maried Katherine Stanley,
  • Daughter of Thomas Stanley,Knt. K>G>.ist Lord Stanley( a decendant of Geoffrey Plantagnet) by Joan ( decendant of King Edward the 1st. ) daughter and co-heiress of Robert de Goushill, Knt..
• Children. 10 sons and five daughters as follows:
  • 1.John Knt. K>B> K>G>
  • 2. Thoams(clerk) Bishope of Rochester
  • 3. Humphrey
  • 4.Lawrence
  • 5 james
  • 6.Edward Knt
  • 7. Christopher,Knt.
  • 8.George
  • 9 William
  • 10 Richard Knt.
  • 11.Ellen
  • 12 Katherine M. Thomas Legh
  • 13 Margaret
  • 14 Alice m. Roger Pilkington
  • 15 Elizabeth m. John Leeke
• John Savage fought at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485
• He died 22 Nov 1495 and was burried in Macclesfield.

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Mayor of Chester

Descendants- Savage family in America http://www.savageancestry.com/

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Sir John Savage, Mayor of Chester, Chamberlain of Middlewich (1.2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12)

• M, #23360,
• b. circa 1423,
• d. 22 November 1495
• Father: Sir John Savage, Bailiff of the Forest of Macclesfield, Chamberlain of Middlewich (13,14,10)
  • b. bt 1401 - 1410,
  • d. 29 Jun 1463
• Mother: Eleanor Brereton (13,14,10)
  • b. c 1388     
• Sir John Savage, Mayor of Chester, Chamberlain of Middlewich was
  • born circa 1423 at of Clifton & Rocksavage, Cheshire, England; Age 40 in 1463.(2,5,10)
  • He married Katherine Stanley, circa 1447 at of Clifton, Cheshire, England
    • daughter of Sir Thomas Stanley, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord of Latham and Knowsley, 1st Lord Stanley, Constable & Justice of Chester and Joan Goushill, ;
  • They had 10 sons
    • (Sir John; Thomas, Bishop of Rochester & London, Archbishop of York; Sir Humphrey; Sir Lawrence; James; Sir Edward; Sir Christopher; George; William; & Sir Richard) and
  • 5 daughters
    • (Ellen, wife of Sir Peter Legh; Katherine, wife of Thomas Legh; Margaret, wife of John Honford, Esq; Alice, wife of Roger Pilkington; & Elizabeth, wife of John Leeke, Esq.) (2,15,5,6,7,10,11,12)
• Sir John Savage, Mayor of Chester, Chamberlain of Middlewich died on 22 November 1495; Age 73.
• Buried at Macclesfield, Cheshire (2,5,10)
• Family Katherine Stanley b. 1430
• Children
  • 1) Sir John Savage+ (16,17,5,18,10) b. c 1448, d. 18 Oct 1492
  • 2) Margaret Savage+ (17,19,3,4,5,20,8,9,19,21) b. c 1450
  • 3)Thomas Savage, Bishop of Rochester & London, Archbishop of York (17,10) b. c 1452, d. 3 Sep 1507
  • 4) Elizabeth Savage+ (22,23,5,7,10,12) b. c 1453
  • 5) Helen Savage+ b. c 1454
  • 6) Sir Homphrey Savage b. c 1456
  • 7) Lawrence Savage b. c 1458
  • 8) Ellen Savage+ (24,25,27,26,5,27,10) b. c 1460, d. 17 May 1491
  • 9) Katherine Savage+ (28) b. c 1462
  • 10) James Savage b. c 1464
  • 11) Alice Savage (22) b. c 1464
  • 12) Sir Christopher Savage, Mayor of Macclesfield+ (5,10) b. c 1468, d. 9 Sep 1513

Citations

• 1 [S7337] Unknown author, The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants, by Gary Boyd Roberts, p. 238; The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, by Ronny O. Bodine, p. 22; Wallop Family, p. 440, 814.
• 2 [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 638-639.
• 3 [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 250.
• 4 [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 278.
• 5 [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 491-492.
• 6 [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 91.
• 7 [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 296.
• 8 [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 83.
• 9 [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 283.
• 10 [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. IV, p. 554.
• 11 [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 28.
• 12 [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 323.
• 13 [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 638.
• 14 [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 491.
• 15 [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 679.
• 16 [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 559.
• 17 [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 639.
• 18 [S6] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 653.
• 19 [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 715-716.
• 20 [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 207.
• 21 [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 181.
• 22 [S11581] Burke's Dormant & Extinct Peerages, p. 473.
• 23 [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 755.
• 24 [S11577] Unknown author, Burke's Commoners, Vol. II, p., 686.
• 25 [S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 443.
• 26 [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 13.
• 27 [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 555.
• 28 [S11583] The Wallop Family and Their Ancestry, by Vernon James Watney, p., 686.

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Sir Robert Waterton had an illegitimate son Thomas Waterton, who married Margaret, daughter of Sir John Savage of Clifton. Their son was John.

Katherine Stanley, wife of Sir John Savage, KG, of Clifton, Cheshire. Of their many sons, the eldest, Sir John Savage, KG, was the commander of the left wing of Henry Tudor's army at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485; another, Sir Christopher Savage of Aston-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, fell at the Battle of Flodden, and another, Thomas Savage, was Archbishop of York.
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Sir John Savage, IV
Birth 1422
Cheshire, England
Death 22 Nov 1495 (aged 72'9673)
Macclesfield, Cheshire East Unitary Authority, Cheshire, England
Burial
St. Michael's & All Angels Churchyard
Macclesfield, Cheshire East Unitary Authority, Cheshire, England Add to Map
Plot
Savage Chapel
Memorial ID 63242477

References

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Stanley,_1st_Baron_Stanley
• Richardson, Douglas, Magna Carta Ancestry, Baltimore, Md., 2005, p.771
• https://overtown.org.uk/cw/Charles_Waterton/waterton-methley.htm