Savage, John (1370 - 1450)

Biographical Overview

Parents

Titles - 1
Properties - 6
Total events naming patron - 3
Troupes - 2
Venues - 1
Bibliographic Sources - 15
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Born / Died

Birth Date: ca. 1370
Death Date: 1450-08-01

Siblings

Female

Savage, Elizabeth ( - )
Savage, Blanche ( - )
Savage, Lucy ( - )

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Swynnerton, Maud ( - )
    Type: marriage
    Union began: by 1409
    Union ended: n.d.
  2. Vernon, Ellen ( - )
    Type: marriage
    Union began: by 1428
    Union ended: n.d.

Offspring

From Swynnerton, Maud ( - )

  1. Female offspring: Savage, Isabel (n.d.)
  2. Male offspring: Savage, John (d. 1463)
  3. Male offspring: Savage, William (n.d.)
  4. Male offspring: Savage, Arnold (n.d.)
  5. Male offspring: Savage, George (n.d.)
  6. Male offspring: Savage, Roger (n.d.)
  7. Female offspring: Savage, Margaret (n.d.)
  8. Female offspring: Savage, Maud (n.d.)

Primary Title

Knight

Titles

  • Knight
    Assumed 1415-10 (at Agincourt)
    Vacated 1450-08-01

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
Keeper, Cheshire Before 1399 n.d. Held jointly with stepfather Piers Leigh
Commissioner of Array, Dorset 1402 n.d.
Keeper, Dorset 1403/4-2-11 1413-06-9 Formerly of Roger de Mortimer (d 20 July 1398), 4th Earl of March. Roger's son & heir, Edmund, 5th Earl, received livery of his estates 9 June 1413
Keeper, Shropshire 1415-12-6 n.d. Lands formerly of Thomas FitzAlan (d 13 Oct. 1415), 17th Earl Arundel
Commissioner of Musters, Kent 1418/19 n.d.
Keeper, Cheshire 1419-11-8 n.d. Lands formerly of John Bromeley, tenant-in-chief of Piers Leigh and James Leigh during minority of son William Bromeley

Details of Properties

Residence

Lands

  • Cheshire: Great Barrow Manor
    Acquired: by 1401
    This and other manors via 1st wife
  • Cheshire: Macclesfield Mills
    Acquired: 1408
    Leased
  • Cheshire: Picton Manor
    Acquired: after 1428
    This and other manors via 2nd wife
  • Staffordshire
    Acquired: by 1401
    Via 1st wife
  • Staffordshire: Alstonfield Manor
    Acquired: by 1401
    Divested: 1424
    Via 1st wife; lost to son-in-law Richard Peshall

Events Naming Patron

Event Date Location Troupe
Performance 1448-1448 Common Hall, York , York (city-county) in Yorkshire Sir John Savage's Minstrel
Performance 1446-1446 Common Hall, York , York (city-county) in Yorkshire Sir John Savage's Minstrels
Performance 1449-1449 Common Hall, York , York (city-county) in Yorkshire Sir John Savage's Minstrels

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Sir John Savage's Minstrel Savage, John (1370 - 1450) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Sir John Savage's Minstrels Savage, John (1370 - 1450) Entertainers/Minstrels 2

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Venue Type
Clifton Hall Cheshire Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

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Bliss, W. H. Calendar of Entries in the Papal Registers, Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, Petitions to the Pope [1342–1419]. London: HMSO, 1896.
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and other analogous documents, Henry IV [1399–1405]. London: HMSO, 1904-.
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and other analogous documents, Henry IV [1405–1413]. London: HMSO, 1904-.
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry IV [1399–1413]. 4 vols. London: HMSO, 1903–9.
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry V [1413–22]. 2 vols. London: HMSO, 1910–11.
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry VI [1422–61]. 6 vols. London: HMSO, 1901–11.
Calendar of Patent Rolls, Richard II [1377–99]. 7 vols. London: HMSO, 1895–1905.
Calendar of the Close Rolls, Henry V [1413–22]. 2 vols. London: HMSO, 1929–32.
Calendar of the Fine Rolls [1272–1509]. 22 vols. London: HMSO, 1911–1962.
The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982.
Harris, B.E., C.P. Lewis, and A.T. Thacker. The Victoria History of the County of Chester. The Victoria History of the Counties of England. 5 vols. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1979–2005.
Ormerod, George. History of the County Palatine and City of Chester. 1st ed 1819. 3 vols. London: Routledge, 1882.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 01/05/2005 (http://www.oxforddnb.com)
Page, William, A.T. Gaydon and G.C. Baugh, eds. The Victoria History of the County of Shropshire. Victoria History of the Counties of England. 11 vols. London: Archibald Constable, U of London, 1908–98.
Page, William, ed. The Victoria History of the County of Stafford. Victoria History of the Counties of England. 17 vols. London: Oxford UP, 1968-.