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Margaret Savage seems, therefore, to have divided her arms and
lands between her two sons. To the son of her second husband, John
Savage, she bequeathed the estate of Clifton, which she had inherited from
her mother, daughter and heir of William Baggily, who had married the
co-heir of Sir Roger Button, Lord of Chedhill and Clifton, and with it the
coat and crest of Danvers, viz., argent a pale fusilly
sable ; crest, a unicorn's head couped argent,
and probably the supporters, unicorns, which harmonize
with the crest, and which may have been
granted about this time. These arms were borne by
his descendants until the year 1547, when Sir John
Savage, who married Elizabeth Manners, daughter
of the Earl of Rutland, resumed the ancient coat
of his family, the six lioncels sable, simply quartering
the arms of Danvers.
To the son of her third husband, Piers Legh,
she bequeathed the estate at Lyme, granted to
Legh of Lyms.
her father by the Black Prince, and with it the augmentation of honour
granted at the same time, as a separate coat-of-arms, which is still borne
by the family of Leigh of Lyme.
Her son, John Savage, inherited also his father's gallantry, for he
was knighted at the battle of Agincourt, 3rd Henry V., and died 25th
Henry VI., 1450.
His grandson, Sir John, knighted i7th Edward IV., 1477, married
Catherine,* daughter of Sir Thomas Stanley, afterwards Lord Stanley,
sister to Thomas Stanley, Earl of Derby, who married Eleanor, sister to
Richard Nevill, Earl of Warwick, nicknamed the King-maker. He, however,
refused his importunity to desert with him to the cause of Henry VI.,
and remained faithful to Edward IV. during his life, and to his son
Edward V. after his death.
He was present at the Council in the Tower where Hastings was
denounced by Richard and ordered to immediate execution. Indeed, he
seems to have had a presentiment, in a dream the night before, that evil
was intended by Richard, for he had counselled Hastings to ride away
with him, and he only escaped himself with life
by creeping under the
table when a man struck at him with a halbert.
He was imprisoned as soon as Richard ascended the throne ;
but his
son, Lord Strange, was, however, so powerful in Lincolnshire that it was
evidently more expedient to conciliate him, so he was set at liberty, and
created Lord Steward of the Household. His second marriage, however,
with Margaret, widow of Edmund Tudor, and mother of Henry, Earl of
Richmond, again made him an object of suspicion and he now found it
;
* Collins' Peerage.
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