Margaret Danyers

  General Notes:

~Ormerod's History of the County Palatine and City of Chester, vol. I, p. 712, Margeret Daniers married John Savage about 49 Edward II. From this marriage comes the Savages of Clifton. Margaret was the heir to her mother, and brought all her mother's land in Chedle to the Savage family. ⁷¹³

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ⁷²¹
Daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Daniers, Lord of Bradley and Clifton, had married first, in 1369, John Ratcliffe, who died leaving no issue. She married third, in Nov. 1388, Piers Legh of Maxfield, younger son of Robert Legh of Adlington. She inherited all her mother's lands. Having survived all her husbands, as a widow she gave the moiety of Gropenhall to her son Piers in 1403. To her son John Savage she gave the liberty to bear her arms, deeded to her by her father.
~Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abel, pg. 213

• Background Information. ⁷¹⁸
The manor of Chedle belonged to a family of that name in the 12th century. A grandson of the possessor, Sir Roger, left two daughters, one who was named Clemence. Clemence married William de Bagaly, and they had a daughter named Isabel. Isabel married Thomas Danyers. Their daughter married, about 49 Edward III, John Savage as her second husband. Clemence, on of the co-heiresses of Sir Roger de Chedle, had Slifton and divers lands in Chedle by inheritance, which descended to his grand daughter Margaret and John Savage in the right of his wife, he became Lord of Chedle.
~The Ancient and Noble Family of Savage, pg. 16

Margaret married Sir John Savage Knight, Esquire of Clifton, son of Sir Robert Savage and Amicia de Walkington Heiress of Walkington, about 1369 in Cheadle, Cheshire, England.⁷¹⁸ (Sir John Savage Knight, Esquire of Clifton was born about 1343 in Stainesby, Derbyshire, England and died in 1386 in Clifton, Staffordshire, England ⁷¹⁸.)