Sir Thomas Savage Knight

  General Notes:

~The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580, pp. 203, names this generation also Sir John Savage rather than Sir Thomas Savage as stated in the Ancient & Noble Family of the Savages of the Ards. ^527,718

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷¹⁸
Sir Geffrey le Savage¹, of Stainesby, was succeeded in the lordship of Stainesby by his son, John Savage², of Stainesby, living in 1208, who was father of John Savage³ the ancestor of the Savages, Earls Rivers, the Savages of Elmley Castle and the Savages of Tetbury. This John Savage³ was the brother of Sir Roger Savage of the Kent Branch of Savages.

John Savage³ of Stainesby was succeeded by his first son, also named John Savage⁴ who married Agatha, daughter and heiress of Henry St. Andrews, by whom he had a son, Sir Thomas Savage⁵, of Stainesby, Knight, living 29 Edward I (1300/1). Sir Thomas Savage⁵ was succeed by his son Sir Robert Savage⁶, of Stainesby, Knight, 41 Edward III (1367/8) who married Amicia, daughter of Sir Thomas Walkington, by whom he had a son and successor, Sir John Savage⁷ married To Margaret the daughter of Sir Thomas Danyers.

~The Ancient and Noble Family of the Savages of the Ards, p. 15