Sir Geoffrey le Savage Knight

  General Notes:

The first three Generations given on Pedigree from The Topographer and Genealogists, Vol. I, pp. 357 ⁸³²

Geoffrey le Savage had a half a knights fee in Hints, co. Stafford
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Geoffrey le Savage = Letitia, daughter of Seward de Arderne son of Turketil Earl of Warwick.
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Geoffrey le Savage, of Bagginton Castle, Warwick, Lord of Hintes, ob. 1231 = Petronilla, daughter of Hugh le Despencer
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~The Ancient and Noble Family of the Savages of the Ards, pp. 9-11, begins the Savage line with Le Sieur Thomas Le Suvage, born in Normandy, living in 1066, and was succeeded by:
John Savage, Esquire, who was living prior to the year 1090. In the latter year his name appears in connection with Derbyshire along with that of Peveril and that of Roger de Buran, ancestors of the lord Byron of Rochdale. John le Savage was succeeded by:
Adam le Savage, who name according to the Hearlds, appears in a deed of that period, but with date. This Adam le Savage was the father of:
Robert le Savage of Stainesby, Co. Derby, who was the father of:
John le Savage, Lord of Stainsby, who was succeeded by his son:
Sir Geffrey le Savage, of Stainsby, Knt. This Geffrey le Savage married Letice de Arderne. ⁷¹⁸

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷¹⁸
This Sir Geffrey le Savage, married Letice, daughte of Sir Henry de Arderne (otherwise Arden), and became connected with Warwickshire by alliance with the family from which Shakespeare in later years maternally descended. Sir Henry de Arderne, "by his deed in writing," according to Dugdale [Sir William Dugdale, Antiquities of Warwichshire], "gave the manor of Baginton, in Warwhichshire, in Frank marriage at the Churche dore, with Letice his daughter, unto Geffrey Savage, the day that he married her." "Of the first Geffrey Savage" adds Dugdale, "this is all I find, viz., that he is mentioned in the Sheriff's account of five Henry II, as also that 31 Henry II, Thomas de Arden has suites with him for two hides of land in this country; that he had isue Helias and Geffrey." Sir Geffrey le Savage, who appears to have died in 1190 (1 Richard I), was by his wife Letice (née Arden or Arderne), the father of John, Lord of Stainesby, Helias who died without issue, Sir William, Earl of Ulster, and Geffrey.

~The Ancient and Noble Family of the Savages of the Ards, pp. 10-11

Geoffrey married Letice de Arderne, daughter of Sir Henry Arderne Knight and Olivia ⁷¹⁸.^,832 (Letice de Arderne was born about 1150 in Radbourn, Warwickshire, Englad.)