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Personal data John "Knight of the Garter" Savage V 

• Nickname is Knight of the Garter.
• He was born about 1448 in Clifton, Cheshire, England.
• Profession: Killed in Siege of Boulogne (Bullen), France, Knight of the Garter, personally crowned Henry Vll after the battle..
• (MARR) in the year 1470 in Clifton, Cheshire, England (Present UK): Echtgeno(o)t(e): Dorothy Savage (geboren Vernon).
• He died on October 18, 1492 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Comté d'Artois (Present department Pas-de-Calais), (Present Nord-Pas de Calais), France.
• He is buried in Savage Chapel at St. Michael's Church, Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom.
• A child of John Savage and Katherine Stanley

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Notes about John "Knight of the Garter" Savage V

Sir John served under King Henry VII in the Battle of Bosworth in England (described as some as the last significant battle in the War of the Roses). For his service, King Henry gave Sir John loans obtained during this battle.hrewsbury, Duke of York, who had been killed at the Tower of London a decade earlier), laying siege to Bullen (Boulogne), John was killed. slain (1499), at which time King Henry VII became the undisputed first Tudor King of England. This ushered in the Tudor dynasty which began a new era in English History.age Coat of Arms in it.00) of Derby [q. v.] Thomas Savage (d. 1507) [q. v.], archbishop of York, was his brother. of his queen's coronation on 26 May 1465 (Letters and Papers illustrative of the Wars of the English in France under Henry VI, ed. Stevenson, Rolls Ser. ii. [784]). On 17 April 1483, as a knight of the royal body, he was one of those selected to bear Edward's body into Westminster Abbey (Letters and Papers illustrative of the Reigns of Richard III and Henry VII, ed. Gairdner, Rolls Ser. i. 5, 8). o take the oaths of allegiance in Kent, and placing him in the commission of the peace (Harl. MS. 433, ff. 90–4). Nevertheless he had a secret understanding with the Earl of Richmond. ery came to light through the arrest of Lord Stanley's son, Lord Strange, and Savage joined Richmond on his march through Wales. At the battle of Bosworth he is said to have commanded the left wing of Henry's army. For his services Henry VII granted him a number of forfeited estates in Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, and Shropshire, on 7 March 1486. On 16 Feb. 1488 he received fresh grants, and on 16 Nov. was elected a knight of the Garter (Materials for the Reign of Henry VII, ed. Campbell, Rolls Ser. ii. 245). intercepted by the enemy while reconnoitring, refused to surrender, and was in consequence slain (Bacon, Hist. of Henry VII, ed. Lumby, p. 102; Hall, Chronicle, 1809, p. 459). daughter of Sir Ralph Vernon of Haddon, he had a son, John, who succeeded him, and four daughters. Sir John had also an illegitimate son George, rector of Davenham, Cheshire, who is said to have been the father of Edmund Bonner [q. v.], bishop of London.say's Lancaster and York, 1892, ii. 540; , 1485.e. Said to have been knighted personally by the king after the battle.ohn Savage, Mayor of Chester1,2,6,7 b. c 1423, d. 22 Nov 1495d Dorothy Vernon, daughter of Sir Ralph Vernon and Margaret Butler, circa 1470 at Clifton, Cheshire, England; They had 1 son (Sir John) and 5 daughters (Elizabeth; Alice, wife of Sir William Brereton; Felicia, wife of William Milward; Ellen, wife of John Hawarden; & Maud, wife of Sir Robert Needham).1,2,3,4,5 Sir John Savage died on 18 October 1492 at Siege of Boulogne, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; Buried at St. Michael's Church, Macclesfield, Cheshire.1,8,4, Sheriff of Worcestershire+8 b. 1478, d. 2 Mar 1527et Ancestry, p. 639.uglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 653-654.net Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 653.htm#i53290ed as a Knight, Order of the Garter (K.G.).1.: Burkes Peerage Ltd, 1976), page 166. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Irish Family Records.2.htm#i353714e Garter. Elder brother of Archbishop Savage. Acted with Sir Rhys ap Thomas in support of Henry Tudor. He commanded the left wing of the invading army at Bosworth Field in 1485 and was slain at the Siege of Boulogne in 1492.**3. Ellen SAVAGE

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