SAVAGE

SAVAGE. Camden says, that this surname was introduced into England by a personage in the train of Isabella of France, queen of Edward II. There were, however, earlier settlements of families so named ; for a knight of this designation founded the Savages in Ireland immediately upon De Courcy's invasion, temp. Henry II. Le Sauvage was a sobriquet of early times, both in Normandy and England, M'hich implied, perhaps, a roughness of manners, like our indigenous AVild. In ancient deeds the common latiuization is Salvagius.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.