Jane Savage was the second daughter of John Savage, 2nd Earl Rivers and his wife, Catherine Parker. [1] She married widower, George Brydges, Baron Chandos, son of Grey Brydges and his wife, Anne Stanley, on 17 January 1653 at Hedgerley in Buckinghamshire. [2] In 1653 life was uncertain in England while Parliament tried to decide what form the government should take. As a Royalist George had paid a heavy fine to Parliament at the close of the First Civil War and his behaviour was not as circumspect as it should have been. On 13 May that year he killed Henry Compton in a duel at Putney, was imprisoned and, on 17 May 1654, was found guilty of manslaughter. [3] He and Compton's second, Henry, Lord Arundel of Wardour pleaded benefit of clergy and were both branded on the hand, the only English peers ever to be punished in this way. [4]
George died of smallpox in February 1655, leaving Jane Sudeley Castle and all his estates, to the exclusion of his brother, William, who inherited the Barony.[5][4] Jane is said to have borne possibly two daughters to George [4] or as many as three [6] but unless she had a multiple birth it is difficult to see how it was possible in a marriage lasting only three years with her husband imprisoned for many months.
She married, secondly, Sir William Sedley of Southfleet in Kent, son of Sir John Sedley and his wife, Elizabeth Savile, on 9 October 1655 at St Mildred Poultry, in the City of London,[7] a church that was to go up in flames during the Fire of London in 1666. [8] The marriage was brief and childless for William died the following year. [1] Probate was granted on 8 May 1656. [9]
Undeterred Jane married again the year after William's death. Her third husband was another Royalist, George Pitt of Stratfield Saye in Hampshire, son of Edward Pitt and his wife, Rachel Morton. George had not distinguished himself during the civil war and had escaped with only a decimation of his estate. With Jane's property at Sudeley included he had an estate valued at £4000 per annum. Times were changing and, on 17 April 1660, George was returned to Parliament as member for Wareham. After the death of Cromwell in 1658 public affairs in England had descended into chaos and the new parliament voted for the restoration of the monarchy in the person of Charles II. After his return in May there was a general scramble for the restoration of property and on 22 June 1660 the House of Lords granted William, 7th Baron Chandos, Jane's former brother-in-law, an order forbidding the felling of timber on the Sudeley estate.[10]
Jane died on 6 June 1676 and was buried in Stratfield Saye church. [1]
"George the third Sonn by Birth became (in ye yeare 1643) the Eldest Sonn and heire of Edward & Inter-Maryed with the Right Honourable Jane Lady Chandos 2nd Daughter to John Earle Rivers and Relict of George Lord Chandos Baron of Sudeley by whom he had four sonns George William John and Edward and four daughters Mary Eliz: Jane & Ann all living at the Death of theire Mother who departed this life the 6 of June 1676 to the greate Griefe of all that knew her,' &c. Her husband erected this monument in 1681, and was himself buried here in 1694."[11]
Child of Jane Savage and George Brydges, 6th Baron Chandos of Sudeley
Children of Jane Savage and George Pitt
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Categories: Estimated Birth Date | Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire | Hedgerley, Buckinghamshire | St Mildred Poultry Church, City of London | Southfleet, Kent | Stratfield Saye, Hampshire | St Mary the Virgin Church, Stratfield Saye, Hampshire
http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1660-1690/member/pitt-george-1625-94 Jane is at present married to George Pitt, the son of an Edward W Pitt and a Adele Blythe Woodsworth (this profile comes from a family that seems to have been inserted into the more prominent Pitt line ) Could she be unlinked from Pitt-481 and attached to Pitt-71?