Person:John Savage (61)

Sir John Savage
 
Facts and Events
Name Sir John Savage
Alt Name[1] Sir John Savage, junior
Gender Male
Other[1] 1484 made a freeman of Chester
Military[1] 1485 had the charge of the left wing at the Battle of Bosworth Field
Marriage to Dorothy Vernon (add)
Marriage Cohabitation?
to Unknown
Residence[1] Clifton, Cheshire, England
Death[1][3] 1492 Boulogne, Vendée, Franceslain at the Siege of Boulogne (1492)
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: G. Routledge, 1882)
    Volume 1, page 714.

    "He was a valiant man and an expert soldier, and made knight of the garter by Henry the Seventh."

  2.   John Savage, in Find A Grave.
  3. Earwaker, J. P. (John Parsons). East Cheshire, past and present, or, A history of the hundred of Macclesfield in the county Palatine of Chester - from original records. (London: Printed for the Author, 1878-1880)
    2:480.