Savile married Anne, daughter of
Thomas Coventry, 1st Baron Coventry, on 29 December 1629. She became celebrated as a heroine of the civil war when she was besieged by the
Parliamentarians in Sheffield Castle. She gave a gallant and warlike defence to the battering from guns on all sides, in spite of her advanced pregnancy. Against her orders, the garrison eventually surrendered the crumbling castle and she gave birth the same night on 11 August 1644. Sir William & Lady Anne had seven children: :*Mary (b.1632) :*
George (b.1633) who succeeded William as the 4th Baronet and then later created
Marquess of Halifax. :*Anne (b.1634) married
Thomas Windsor, 1st Earl of Plymouth :*William (b.1635) :*Margaret (b.1640) :*
Henry (b.1642) :*Talbot (b.1644) born during the siege of Sheffield Castle About eleven years after Savile's death, Anne married
circa 1655 to Sir
Thomas Chicheley and had two further sons. ==References==