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Savage, John (1370 - 1450)

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Born / Died

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

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

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

Siblings

Offspring

Primary Title

  • Knight

Titles

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

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
Keeper, Cheshire 1399 Held jointly with stepfather Piers Leigh
Commissioner of Array, Dorset 1402
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 Lands formerly of Thomas FitzAlan (d 13 Oct. 1415), 17th Earl Arundel
Commissioner of Musters, Kent 1418/19
Keeper, Cheshire 1419 -11 -8 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: 1401
    This and other manors via 1st wife
  • Cheshire: Macclesfield Mills
    Acquired: 1408
    Leased
  • Cheshire: Picton Manor
    Acquired: 1428
    This and other manors via 2nd wife
  • Staffordshire
    Acquired: 1401
    Via 1st wife
  • Staffordshire: Alstonfield Manor
    Acquired: 1401
    Divested: 1424
    Via 1st wife; lost to son-in-law Richard Peshall

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Common Hall, York, York (city-county) in Yorkshire Sir John Savage's Minstrel
Performance - Common Hall, York, York (city-county) in Yorkshire Sir John Savage's Minstrels
Performance - 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 1
Sir John Savage's Minstrels Savage, John (1370 - 1450) Entertainers/Minstrels 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Clifton Hall Cheshire Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

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  • 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
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  • 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. 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.
  • Page, William, A.T. Gaydon and G.C. Baugh, eds. The Victoria History of the County of Shropshire. 11 vols. London: Archibald Constable, U of London, 1908--98
  • Page, William, ed. The Victoria History of the County of Stafford. 17 vols. London: Oxford UP, 1968-