Thomas Savage, Archbishop of York

Bishop of Rochester & London, Archbishop of York.

Savage's last post was as Archbishop of York from 1501 to 1507. He was translated from the see of London on 18 January 1501. While Archbishop he was responsible for the marriage ceremony of Arthur, Prince of Wales, eldest son of Henry VII, to Catherine of Aragon. Arthur died young, and his brother Henry, who became Henry VIII, then married Catherine.

Support for Henry Tudor

According to Polydore Vergil, Savage was one of the prominent men who "invited" Henry Tudor to invade. His brother, Dr Thomas Savage, later Archbishop of York, may then have been studying abroad and acting as the English Savages' direct link to the future Henry VII. When Henry landed, Savage at once declared for him, and raised a considerable body of troops to fight at the Battle of Bosworth, wearing the Savage family's distinctive livery of white hoods, as described in the ballad Bosworth Feilde:

"Sir John Savage, that hardy Knight,

deathes dentes he delt that day with many a white hood in fight, that sad men were at assay."==

After that battle, where Savage commanded the left flank to victory,[1] he received extensive grants of land confiscated from King Richard's supporters, including those of John, Lord Zouche, and Francis, Lord Lovell. Appointed a Knight of the Garter on 16 November 1488,[2] Savage was killed during the Siege of Boulogne in October 1492.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Savage_(soldier)