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Persoonlijke gegevens Thomas "Savile" Savile 

• Roepnaam is Savile.
• Hij is geboren rond 1381Thornhill
  England.
• Hij is overleden in het jaar 1449England.
• Een kind van Henry Saville en Elizabeth Thornhill

Gezin van Thomas "Savile" Savile

Hij is getrouwd met Margaret Pilkington.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1442England.

Kind(eren):

1. Alice Saville  ± 1404-???? 
2. John Saville  ± 1407-1482 

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{geni:about_me} History of the Savile family

http://www.savilehousehold.co.uk/html/body_the_savile_s.html

The Saviles 1415-1449

Henry Savile died in 1415 and his son, Thomas, inherited the Thornhill estates. Thomas Savile was destined to become the head of the family as the Elland Saviles died out and he inherited the property of his uncle. As Thomas was resident at Thornhill, the principal seat of the family transferred from Elland to Thornhill. During the Fifteenth century, the heads of the family were always the Saviles of Thornhill.

Sir Thomas Savile continued the family tradition of serving the crown and he had been made Knight of the Shire in 1442. He also performed various other tasks, including a Commission for the defence of the Realm in 1417 and an appointment to raise a loan for the King in March 1439. Sir Thomas Savile had been knighted and this came in or before 1430, as documents after 1430 acknowledge his status. Sir Thomas had a rather short and uneventful political career, although in the period under his leadership, the family became affiliated to the Duke of York. This affiliation would lead to the Savile family’s support of the Yorkist faction when armed conflict began in 1455.

The will of Sir Thomas, who died in 1449, suggests he was a pious man, with many grants to religious houses in the vicinity of the Savile estates. Certainly, he was a patron of Thornhill Parish church and in 1447 he had paid for an extension to the Church to provide a private family chapel. Surviving stained glass in the windows of this chapel link it to Sir Thomas, with a Latin inscription that translates ‘Pray for the soul of Thomas Savile, Knight, who caused this chapel to be built, AD. 1447.’ Illustration in the glass shows Sir Thomas and his wife, Margaret, at prayer, with the arms of the Savile and Thornhill families quartered on Lady Margaret’s dress and Sir Thomas’s armour. In this will Savile also bequeathed his best horse and trappings towards the expenses of his funeral and a set of vestments of yellow cloth and a cap for the priest, deacon and sub-deacon of the church at Thornhill. Since the seat of the family had transferred to the Thornhill estate, Sir John left instructions for his body to be interred with his wife in this church and three marks were left for a tomb to be raised over their bodies. Other provisions for the church included a bequest of 40s for a table for the High Altar and a like amount for candles to burn before the crucifix. He also bequeathed 24d for a chaplain to celebrate for the souls of his family for six years after his death. The various other Houses patronised by Savile are indicated by his gifts. The friars of Pontefract received a donation of 13s 8d and the House of St. Robert at Knaresborough received 3s 4d. Three South Yorkshire Houses received gifts, the Friars of Tickhill and the Carmelites and Friars Minor of Doncaster each were given 8d. To a recluse at ‘Beston’ (Beeston) Savile granted 3s. 4d. It was usual in the fifteenth century for prosperous landowners or merchants to leave some provision for the repair of a public highway or bridge. In Savile’s case, a donation of 40s was bestowed to the ‘fabric and repair of the bridge at Horbury.’ The remainder of Sir Thomas’s goods were granted to Sir John, his son and heir, who was also named executor by his father. Apart from Sir John, Sir Thomas Savile left three daughters, all of who married into local families of esquire or knightly status. Margaret Savile was married to Sir John Hopton, Alice Savile to William Mirfield and Elizabeth Savile to Sir John Harrington.

Sir Thomas Savile, son of Henry and Elizabeth was born abt 1381. He married Margaret Pilkington, daughter of Sir Thomas Pilkington. Of Thornhill, Tankersley and Eland, Thomas was heir to his cousin, Isabel Savile Darcy, wife of Thomas Darcy. She was daughter of Sir John Savile, uncle of this Thomas. Sir Thomas had for this inheritance lands in Eland, Golcar and in Halifax vicarage, the lordship of Tankersley, and tenements in Rochdale in Lancashire, and other places, formerly the lands of Robert Lathom. He was Knight of the Shire in 1439. Thomas died in 1449. His will was in the feast of St. Edmund's, Archdeanery of Canterbury, 1449, to be buried in Thornhill church.

Sir John Savile, son of Thomas and Margaret. He married Alice Gascoigne, daughter of Sir William Gascoigne of Gawthorpe.

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