A Whole Lotta Family - Person Sheet
A Whole Lotta Family - Person Sheet
NameSir John Savage IV 11
Birth1422, Clifton, Cheshire, England11
Death22 Nov 1495, Macclesfield, Cheshire, England11 Age: 73
BurialSt Michael;s & All Angels Churchyard, Macclesfield, Cheshire East Unitary Authority, Cheshire, England2277
Spouses
Birth1430, Stanley, Erewash Borough, Derbyshire, England11
Death1498, Macclesfield, Cheshire, England11 Age: 68
BurialSt Michael;s & All Angels Churchyard, Macclesfield, Cheshire East Unitary Authority, Cheshire, England2278
FatherThomas Stanley (1400-1459)
MotherJoan Goushill (1402-1460)
Marriage1447, Clifton, Cheshire, England11
ChildrenEllen (1460-1491)
Notes for Sir John Savage IV
Sir John Savage was born in Clifton, Cheshire, England, died in Macclesfield Park, England. He was the son of John Savage and Elizabeth Eleanor Brereton.

He married
Katherine Stanley (1430-1498) in 1447 in Clifton, Cheshire, England. She was born in Stanley, Derbyshire, England, and died in Clifton, Cheshire, England
In addtion to their eldest son John this couple also had:
Thomas Savage, bishop of Rochester 1492, then London 1497, then Archbishop of York 1501 and died 1508, his body being buried at York and his heart at Macclesfield in Cheshire, where he built a chapel at the side of the church and intended to have a college there:
Sir Homphrey Savage
Lawrence Savage
James Savage;
Sir Edmund Savage, knighted in 1544, on Sunday, May 18, at Butterden, Scotland
Christopher Savage
William Savage
George Savage
Richard Savage
Katherine, married Thomas Legh of Adlington in Cheshire, Esq., in 1479.

John fought for Edward IV at the battles of Barnet and Tewkesbury and was knighted by him. In 1482 he was made a knight banneret by Richard of Gloucester, and when Richard became king, John was made a Knight of the Body. Despite this, he joined the side of Henry Tudor before the battle of Bosworth.
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