Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: 1429 or after.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: John Savage.
Mother: Margaret Danyers.
These relationships are given by Leycester (p. 230).
Spouse: Sir William de Stanley junior.
The evidence for this relationship is the papal dispensation for the marriage of William and Blanche’s daughter Isabel (see Isabel’s page).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
William Stanley (about 1404 - about 1449).
Elizabeth Stanley married Thomas Poole of Poole.
Katherine Stanley married Raph Arderne before 1419.
Isabel Stanley married Robert Legh.
Margery Stanley married Thomas Venables, baron of Kinderton.
Evidence
from the Ryland Charters:
http://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb133-rych/rych/1347
GB 133 RYCH/1347
7 Feb 1403
Grant by William de Stanley, knight, to William, his son, and Blanche, his wife, of land in 'le fflaskes' in the hundred of Macclesfield, in Chorleton [Chorlton], and in le Meoles [Great Meols and Little Meols] in the hundred of Wyrhall.
http://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb133-rych/rych/1416
GB 133 RYCH/1416
7 Feb 1403
Grant of powers of attorney from William, son of William de Stanley, knight, and Blanche, his wife, to James Fare to receive seisin from William de Stanley, knight, of the manor of Stanley, Staffordshire, and lands in 'le fflaskes', Chorleton [Chorlton] and Meles [Meols], Cheshire.
http://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb133-rych/rych/1801
GB 133 RYCH/1801
8 Feb 1403
Grant by William de Stanley, knight, to William, his son, and Blanche, his wife.
http://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb133-rych/rych/1802
GB 133 RYCH/1802
18 Dec 1424
Release by Blanche de Stanley, widow of William, son of William de Stanley, knight, to William de Stanley, her son, of the manor of Stanley, Staffordshire, and lands, etc., in 'le Flaskes' in the hundred of Macclesfield, in Chorleton [Chorlton] and in le Meeles [Meols] in the hundred of Wyrehall [Wirral].
from the Recognizance Rolls of Chester (DKPR v. 37):
1426, Oct. 2
Blanche who was the wife of William de Stanley, Kt., Hugh de Multon, of Chester, and Richard de Bunbury, to William Troutbek, armiger, recognizance for 10l.
1428-9, Jan. 12
Blanch who was the wife of William de Stanley, Kt., Roger del Holes, John Seynesbury, and Randal Torfot, to William Troutbek, recognizance for 10 marks.
Sir Peter Leycester, in the account of Clifton in his Historical Antiquities (1673) p. 230, states:
The second Husband of Margaret Daneil, was this John Savage, descended of the Savages of Steinesbie in Darbyshire; whom he married about 49 Edw. 3. and had Issue by her John Savage Son and Heir, Elizabeth, and Blanch, all living 4 Hen. 4. Lib. C. fol. 290. d.
“Liber C” is a collection of deeds taken by Leycester from the originals.
References
Leycester, Peter, Sir. Historical antiquities, in two books the first treating in general of Great-Brettain and Ireland : the second containing particular remarks concerning Cheshire / faithfully collected out of authentick histories, old deeds, records, and evidences, by Sir Peter Leycester, Baronet ; whereunto is annexed a transcript of Doomsday-book, so far as it concerneth Cheshire, taken out of the original record. (1673)
Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: G. Routledge, 1882).