Savage family
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Savage (French: le Sauvage, Latin: Silvaticus) is an Anglo-Norman surname which was used by several English and Anglo-Irish knightly or gentry families, several of whom were politically important in England or Ireland.
See also: Savage (surname)
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography gives specific articles for the following prominent branches:
- The Ulster Savage family of approximately 1333–1519. They were lords of Lecale, in county Down. They held the castle of Ardkeen, and were seneschals of the liberty of Ulster.[1]
- The Savage family of Kent, most notably the branch who held Bobbing, Kent and were important in the period 1280–c. 1420.[2]
- The Savage family of Rocksavage in Clifton, Cheshire who were prominent c. 1369–1528.[3][4]