Sir John Savage, VI, Kt., Sheriff of Worcestershire

A genealogical and heraldic history of the extinct and dormant baronetcies ... By John Burke, Sir Bernard Burke

"Of this family, whose chief abode had for many generations been at the castle of Frodsham in Cheshire, and occasionally at another house more recently erected at Clifton, on the opposite side of the river called Rock Savage, was

"Sir John Savage, a good and faithful ally of the Earl of Richmond, and one of the brave soldiers who placed that prince upon the throne as Henry VII. Sir John was subsequently in the war of France and fell at the siege of Boloine."

Knyghts made at Blackheath fielde anno 12 of the Kinge on seint Botolphs day, yr 17 of June Anno Dni 1497, agaynst ye comons of Cornwail.

Sir John Savage