1477120.
Sir John Savile & 1477121. Isabela de Eland
~1325, John Sayvill born in Yorkshire, England, s/o 2954240. John Savile & 2954241.
Margerie ?.
1/24/1327, Edward III, age 14, succeeded Edward II as King
of England.
~1335, Isabel born in Yorkshire, England, d/o 2954242. Sir John de Eland & 2954243.
Alice Lathom.
9/1346, The English began the year-long siege of the port of
Calais. [Ended 8/1347, held by the English until 1558.]
1347, Sir John at the Siege of Calais. (S) De controversia
in curia militari, Scrope, 1832, P303.
6/1349, The Plague reached Dorset, and had spread across
England by the end of 1349.
1350, Sir John Savile purchased the wardship of Isabel
Eland, daughter of Sir John de Eland, from the Lord of the Honour of
Pontefract, for £200.
Bef. 1353, John married Isabel, gaining an additional 16th
part of the waste of “Risseworthe”. [This was held by Alicia Rishworth, mother
of Margerie, “for life” – the implication that both families were prominent in
Rishworth, a town of 6,190 acres at the time.] John, Knt., of Golcar; and of
Elland and Tankersley, by his marriage.
4/1354, Fine between Hugh de Brerelay and Maude his wife,
plaintiffs, and Robert de Neville of Hornby, chivaler, deforciant, of the manor
of Brerelay ..., together with the homage and service of John de Seyville of
Tankersley and Isabel his wife. (S) Record Series, V52, P45.
3/23/1355, John Tours and John de Sayvyll acknowedge they
owe William de Mirfeld, clerk, £10; to be levied, ... in Yorkshire. (S) CCRs.
2/1356, Sir John joined the Black Prince in Gascony.
9/19/1356, Battle of Poitiers in France. Edward, the Black
Prince, defeated a larger French and allied army led by King John II of France,
leading to the capture of the king, his son, and much of the French nobility.
1358, John and Henry de Seyville witnessed 2 charters
relating to Rastrick. (S) Record Series, V63, P93.
1359, “Final concord, L. H. Indenture: John Savile and wife
Isabel, quer. John de Brampton, parson of Baddesworth, def. Manor of Elands and
½ Manor of Tankersly.” (S) UKNA.
1361, John, accused of the murder of a Wakefield man, received
a pardon for “ … good service done in the war in Brittany in the company on
Robert de Herle …”. [11/1360, Herle was the king’s Lt. in Brittany.]
11/15/1364, John Sayvill was one of a commission of oyer and
terminer, touching all conspiracies, confederacies, collusions, and false
alliances in Yorkshire. (S) CPRs.
1365, Sir John fought in Brittany with Henry, Duke of
Lancaster. The army of Charles of Blois was defeated by John IV, Duke of
Brittany, and English forces under Sir John Chandos.
4/3/1367, John was a member of John of Gaunt’s retinue that
fought at the battle of Najara, Spain. John of Gaunt, joined with the Black
Prince, crossed the Pyrenees mountains in winter, and won the battle. The
English were supporting Pedro the Cruel of Castile, who was returned to the
throne. An estimated 16,000 soldiers died in the battle.
7/20/1369, Sir John Sayville, knt., paid £20 for the license
in mortmain in respect of the chantry at Elland. (S) CPRs.
1370, John purchased the rights of the marriage of
2-year-old Elizabeth Thornhill from the Crown for £126 3s 4d. [She was married
to his son Henry.]
4/1371, At Sprotborough, John Fitz-William, knt., found
pledges, John Sayville, knt., Thomas de Reresby, knt. ..., in £300, ... (S)
CCRs.
4/1372, [Record 1] Fine between Thomas son of John de Eland,
plaintiff, and John Sayville of Eland, chivaler, and Isabel his wife,
deforciants, of a moiety of the manor of Tankersley; to hold to Thomas and the
heirs of his body, of John and Isabel and the heirs of Isabel, paying yearly a
rose at the Nativity of St. John Baptist, for all service to them, and doing
all service to the chief lords; reversion to John and Isabel and the heirs of
Isabel. (S) Record Series, V52, P162.
4/1372, [Record 2] Fine between Geoffrey de Warburton,
chivaler, and Aline his wife, plaintiffs, and John Sayville of Eland, chivaler,
and Isabel his wife, deforciants, of the manors of Brighouse and Carlinghow; to
hold to Geoffrey and Aline for the life of Aline, of John and Isabel and the
heirs of Isabel, paying yearly a rose at the Nativity of St. John Baptist for
all service to them, and doing all service to the chief lords; remainder to
Thomas son of Sir John de Eland, and the heirs of his body; reversion to John
and Isabel and the heirs of Isabel. [Note: ‘Brighouse’ is the location where
Isabel’s father was killed. Note: ‘remainder’ to ‘Thomas son of Sir John
Eland’, but ‘reversion’ to Isabel. This implies that Thomas held the manors in
right of Isabel.]
9/1372, Fine between John Sayville of Elland, chivaler, and
Isabel his wife, plaintiffs, and John de Brampton, parson of the church of
Badsworth, deforciant, of the manor of Elland and a moiety of the manor of
Tankersley; to hold to John and Isabel for their lives; remainder to John the
son of John, and the heirs of his body; remainder to Henry, brother of John the
son, and the heirs of his body; remainder to the right heirs of Isabel. (S)
Record Series, V52, P157.
1373, Sir John and Robert Rokley assembled 30 archers at
Plymouth for service in John of Gaunt’s campaign in France.
1374, John, Escheator for York.
1375, 1382, 1384, 1389, John Knight of the Shire.
6/21/1377, Richard II, age 10, succeeded Edward III as King
of England.
1380, 1383, 1388, John High Sheriff of Yorkshire.
1384, Richard II granted Sir John an exemption from holding
public office against his will. [Probably because of his age.]
1385-86, Obligation by Thomas de Eland, ... and Adam de
Mirfeld to John Sayvill' knight in 100 marks sterling. (S) UKNA.
6/16/1386, At the palace of John of Gaunt, King of Castile
and Leon, John gave a deposition at the commission into the right to carry the
arms ‘Azure, a bend Or’ between Richard le Scrope and Sir Robert Grosvenor.
9/1386, John gave his age as 60 and upwards.
4/10/1390 at Hathelsay, William Fitzwilliam, knight, son and
heir of John Fitzwilliam, knight to John de Clynton, Ralph de Cromwell, Robert
de Swilyngton, Robert de Rokley, knight, William Gascoigne … Manor of Hathelsay
... Witnesses: John Savyll, sen., John Savyll jun., Thomas de Reresby, knight,
John Everyngham de Birkyn, Thomas Mauncell. (S) UKNA.
7/10/1396, John founded a chantry at Elland church to pray
for John, Duke of Aquitaine and Lancaster, Sir John Sayvill and Isabella his
wife and their children, Henry, late Earl of Lancaster, John Sayvill and
Margaret his wife, the parents of the said Sir John, Thomas de Eland and Joan
his wife (parents of the said Isabella)[Added parenthetically]. (S) Chantry
Surveys, Surtees Soc., ii, P298. [If Isabel was a natural d/o Thomas, then her
brother Robert would be the heir. The records and history suggest she was the
surviving daughter of his older brother and family heir John, who was killed in
1347, and who’s son John died in minority in 1350, leaving his sister Isabel as
his heir. Thomas and Joan raised her, but by the records of 1350 & 1372,
she was the daughter of John.]
By 1399, John wrote his will [undated]: “desires to be
buried at Elland”; John Sayvelle of Shelley is given 6 silver spoons, a silver
covered cup, some corn, a bed and coverlet, and a brass pot formerly his
father's; to his tenants at Golcar and Tankersley. (S) Halifax Wills, ii, 216.
Bef. 9/23/1399, John died, Isabel surviving. (S) Will
proved.
[––Isabel––]
11/17/1399, in the chapel within the manor of Newstead, near
the Priory of St. Oswald's of Nostell, William, Bishop of Pharos, the suffragan
of the archbishop, received the vow of chastity of Isabella, widow of Sir John
Saville, knt., and gave her the ring and mantle (S) Reg. Scrope, 21a.
9/1406, Robert Eland [s/o Thomas de Eland] v. Isabel widow
of John Sayvile, chivaler, claims half the manor of Tankersley by a writ of
formedon. (S) De Banco, 8HenIV, m363d.
1407-8, “Grant by Henry Sayvell' lord of Thornhill' and Henry
Sayvill' de Copplay to Isabel daughter of the late John Sayvill' the younger
knight … which lady Isabel Sayvill' de Eland holds for the term of her life; …”
(S) UKNA.
2/6/1408, Commission by King Henry IV. to William Gascoigne
and Thomas Tildeslegh and others to hold a plea of land between Robert de Eland
v. Isabell, who was the wife of John Sayvill, concerning land in Gretelande,
Stainlande, Barkeslande, Bothomley, Northlande, Ryssheworthe, Heptonstall,
Elande, Lynley and Ourom. (S) UKNA.
1421, “Quitclaim: Thomas son of Robert of Eland, Isabel,
widow of Sir John Savile and Thomas Savile to lands etc in Eland, Greetland,
Stainland, Barkisland, Bothomlay, Northland, Ryssheworth, Heptonstall, Copley,
Ederode etc.” (S) UKNA.
Children of John
and Isabela:
i. Sir John Savile, born ~1357 in England.
John married Isabel, d/o Sir Robert Radclyffe, of Radclyffe
Tower.
3/15/1400, John Savile described himself as “Brother of the
Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem and Preceptor of Temple Bruer in
the Diocese of Lincoln”.
1407-8, John died.
Children:
·
John married Isabel, d/o Sir William
Fitzwilliam. [No Children.] Bef. 1407-8, John died leaving his sister Isabel as
heir.
·
Isabel married Thomas Darcy, 2nd s/o
Philip, Lord Darcy.
ii. Henry Savile (738560), born ~1360 in Yorkshire,
England.
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