John Savage

Also known as: Iohn Sauage / sir Iohn Sauage · Family: Wales · Role: captain · First appears: Richard III 18

Life events

• c. 1485 · Henry VII received promised Welsh military support and funding, then prepared to advance toward Wales.(Richard III 18 · 📍 Wales)
  • With: Henry VII Rhys ap Thomas Reginald Bray
  • “Rice ap Thomas, a man of no lesse valiantnesse than actiuitie, and Iohn Sauage an approoued capteine, would with all their power be partaker of his quarell. And that Reginald Breie had collected and gotten togither no small summe of monie for the paiment of the wages to the souldiers and men of warre: admonishing him also to make quicke expedition, and to take his course directlie into Wales. The earle of Richmond, bicause he would no longer linger and wearie his fréends, liuing continuallie betwéene hope and feare, determined in all conuenient hast to set forward”
• c. 1485 · John Savage, Brian Sanford, and Simon Digby deserted Richard III and joined Henry VII.(Richard III 20)
  • With: Henry VII Brian Sanford Simon Digby
  • “In the euening of the same day, sir Iohn Sauage, sir Brian Sanford, sir Simon Digbie, and manie other, leauing king Richard, turned and came to the part of the earle of Richmond, with an elect companie of men.”
• c. 1485 · Henry VII organizes his army under commanders, with Thomas Stanley and his brothers supporting the battle.(Richard III 21)
  • With: Henry VII John de Vere, Earl of Oxford Gilbert Talbot Thomas Stanley, Earl of Derby William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke William Stanley
  • “He made his fore-ward somewhat single and slender, according to the small number of his people. In the front he placed the archers, of whome he made capteine Iohn earle of Oxenford. To the right wing of the battell he appointed sir Gilbert Talbot to be the leader. To the left wing, he assigned sir Iohn Sauage who had brought thither with him a crue of right able personages, clad in white coats and hoods, which mustered in the eies of their aduersaries right brimlie. The earle of Richmond himselfe, with aid of the lord Stanleie, gouerned the battell, accompanied with the earle of Penbroke, hauing a good companie of horssemen, and a small number of footmen. For all his whole number excéeded not fiue thousand men, beside the power of the Stanleies, wherof thrée thousand were in the field, vnder the standard of sir William Stanleie.”

Richard III 20

• allies with Henry VII “sir Iohn Sauage, sir Brian Sanford, sir Simon Digbie, and manie other, leauing king Richard, turned and came to the part of the earle of Richmond, with an elect companie of men.”
• enemies with Richard III “In the euening of the same day, sir Iohn Sauage, sir Brian Sanford, sir Simon Digbie, and manie other, leauing king Richard, turned and came to the part of the earle of Richmond, with an elect companie of men.”

Richard III 21

• allies with Henry VII “To the left wing, he assigned sir Iohn Sauage who had brought thither with him a crue of right able personages, clad in white coats and hoods, which mustered in the eies of their aduersaries right brimlie.”

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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.