Isabel Savage (abt. 1409 - bef. 1424)

Born about 1409 in Clifton, Cheshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Robert Legh — married before 26 Sep 1415 in Cheshire, England

Died before 1424 before about age 15 in Cheshire, England

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Biography

Isabel Savage married Robert de Legh when she was six and he was four.^[1] Robert de Legh of Adlington was born in 1405 to Robert Legh and Maud/Matilda Belgrave.^[2]

Isabel died when she was 14, after cohabiting with Robert for eight years.^[1]

On 7th day before the Kalends of September, 1424, which was 26 August, at Frascati, Pope Martin V issued a mandate to the bishop of Lichfield, to dispense Robert de Legh, donsel, and Isabel Stanley, daughter of William Stanley, knight, of his diocese, to contract and solemnize marriage notwithstanding an impediment of quasi-affinity (impedimentum publice honestatis justicie) arising from the fact that the said Robert, when in or about his fifth year, and the late Isabel Savage (related to the above Isabel Stanley in the second degree of kindred), when in her seventh year, contracted espousals, the said Isabel Savage dying after cohabiting for eight years with Robert (insimul cohabitaverat carnali copula inter eos non secuta). Oblate nobis.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} "Lateran Regesta 243: 1423-1424," in Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland: Volume 7, 1417-1431, ed. J A Twemlow (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1906), 360-366. British History Online, (http://www.british-history.ac.uk/cal-papal-registers/brit-ie/vol7/pp360-366 : accessed 8 June, 2022). f. 240.
2. ↑ Frank Renaud, Contributions Towards a History of the Ancient Parish of Prestbury (Chetham Society, 1876), 88. e-Book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/stream/contributionsto00renagoog#page/n124/mode/2up).