Sir John Savage Knight, Esquire of Clifton

  General Notes:

~The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580, pp. 203, Sir John Savage, married to Margaret, daughter and heir to Sir Thomas Daniers Lord of Bradley and Clifton after her marriage to Peter Leigh. ⁵²⁷

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷¹⁸
Sir John Savage, of Stainesby, Knight, was living in 49 Edward II (1375/6). He married Margaret, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Danyers (Daniers/Daniels) Knight, de Bradley. By this marriage, Clifton, Cheshire, came into the possession of the Savage family.

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.

Children of Sir John and Margaret Danyers were:
John Savage, son and heir
William Savage
Arthur Savage, whose son was named John and was of Edwall, living 1 Edward IV
Roger Savage
George Savage (Boyer's The Medieval Ancestors of Robert Abell places him as the son of the following John Savage, pg 214)
Petronel Savage, married to Reginald Leigh of Blackbrook (Boyer's The Medieval Ancestors of Robert Abell places her as the daughter of the following John Savage, pg 214)
Elizabeth Savage, married 1st to Sir John Macclesfield, and 2nd to Randle Mainwaring of Carengham
Isabella Savage, who became a nun
Margaret Savage, married to John Dutton, Esquire, 2nd son of Sir Piers Dutton, 6 Henry V, later to be the heir to his father Sir Piers
Dowse Savage, married to Sir Henry Bold, Knight (Boyer's The Medieval Ancestors of Robert Abell calls her Alice and places her as the daughter of the following John Savage, pg 214)
Mary Savage, married to John Leigh of Boothes
Lucy Savage, married to Hamlet Carrington
Maud Savage, married to Sir John/Thomas Booth, of Barton, Lancashire, Knight
Ann Savage, married to Charles Noel, Esquire of Dalby
Eleanor Savage, married to Jofrey Warberton, Esquire of Arley
Blanch Savage, married to Thomas Carrington, Esquire
Dorothy Savage, married to Robert Needham, Esquire of Sherington

Sir John Savage, died in 1386 and was succeeded by his eldest son also named Sir John Savage.

~The Ancient and Noble Family of Savage, pp. 15-17

John married Margaret Danyers, daughter of Sir Thomas Danyers Knight and Isabel de Baggiley, about 1369 in Cheadle, Cheshire, England.⁷¹⁸ (Margaret Danyers was born in 1347 in Cheadle, Cheshire, England and died in 1427 in Cheshire, England ⁷¹³.)