Sir John Savage, VII, Kt.

From the book -- A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies ... By John Burke, Sir Bernard Burke

Sir John Savage, knt. m. Lady Elizabeth Somerset, daughter of Charles, first Earl of Worcester, and was s. by his son.

Biography

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Sir John Savage knight was born in 1493 (Sir John Savage, senior, knight, died on 2 March 1527, and an Inquisition post mortem held in 19 Henry VIII found that his son and heir, John Savage, was 34 years of age and more[1] and died aged 35 in 1528[2]).

John was the son of Sir John Savage and his wife, Ann Bostock, the daughter and coheir of Rafe Bostock of Bostock, esq.[3]

John married Elizabeth, the daughter of Charles Somersett, Earl of Worcester.[3]

John and Elizabeth had children:

1. Sir John Savage of Rocksavage, died October, 1597, married 1) about 1547, Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir Thomas Maniers or Mannours Earl of Rutland,[2] and 2) in 1572, Elenor or Elinour, the daughter of John Cotgreve of Stubbs, and widow of Sir Richard Pexsall,[3] of Beaurepair in Southamptonshire;[4]
2. Henry[3] Savage of Barrow;[2]
3. Margaret who was married to Sir Richard Bulkley[3] of Beaumorris in Wales;[2] and
4. Mary who was married to John Hamden of Hamden.[2]

nd was indicted for the murder with his father as an accessory. They were pardoned in 1520, by the king, through the mediation by this Sir John's father-in-law, Charles earl of Worcester who was the king's chamberlain, and Cardinal Wolsey, and after paying four thousand marks and promising not to go into the counties of Worcester or Cheshire. In 1524, Henry VIII gave Sir John Savage the younger freedom "to go, ride, or dwell in any place either in Worcestershire or Cheshire".[2]

Sir John Savage of Clifton died, aged 35, on 27 July 20 Henry VIII, 1528, his son and heir, John Savage, was three years and nine months old.[2] His widow, Elizabeth, married William Brereton of the bedchamber to Henry VIII, younger son of sir Randle Brereton of Malpas, who was beheaded on 17 May 1536 "for matters touching Queen Anne".[2]

Sources

1. Helsby, Esq, Thomas, eds. "Containing the Introduction and Prolegomena, the county of the city of Chester and Bucklow Hundred", The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester; Compiled from Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian MSS, Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished Ms Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a Personal Survey of Every Township in the County; incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal, and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities, 2nd Edition. Compiled by George Ormerod, Esq, LLD, FRS & FSA. I. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882.
2. Rylands, John Paul, eds. "The visitation of Cheshire in the year 1580 made by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, for William Flower, Norroy king of arms, with numerous additions and continuations, including those from the visitation of Cheshire made in the year 1566, by the same herald. With an appendix, containing the Visitation of a part of Cheshire in the year 1533, made by William Fellows, Lancaster Herald, for Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux king of arms. And a fragment of the Visitation of the City of Chester in the year 1591, made by Thomas Chaloner, deputy to the Office of arms". The Publications of the Harleian Society. XVIII. London: Harleian Society, 1882. https://archive.org/stream/visitationofches00glov#page/n9/mode/2up.