Jean Sauvage
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Jean Savage (1455 – 7 June 1518) was the chancellor of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. He was also known as Jean Le Sauvage.
Savage was born in Lille. He studied law at the University of Louvain. In 1490 he was made a member of the council of Flanders and its president in 1497. He was made chancellor of Brabant in 1509. His rise to office occurred with the support of William de Croÿ. In 1515 Sauvage was made Grand Chancellor of Burgundy. In 1517 he was made Chancellor of all of Charles' realms.
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- Harold Livermore. A History of Spain. New York: Grove Press, 1958. p. 208.
- Peter G. Bietenholz and Thomas Brian Deutscher. Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renasaince and Reformation. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. p. 325-326.
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