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Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, 6th Earl of Salisbury KG (22 November 1428 – 14 April 1471), known as Warwick the Kingmaker, was an English nobleman, administrator, landowner of the House of Neville fortune and military commander.
Duke of Warwick, 14th Earl of Warwick: Richard of York (1411–1460) Duke of York: Anne Beauchamp (1426–1492) 16th Countess of Warwick: Richard Neville "the Kingmaker" (1428–1471) 16th Earl of Warwick jure uxoris: Henry VI (1421–1471) King of England: Dukedom of Warwick extinct, 1446: John Talbot (1426–1453) 1st Viscount Lisle: Anne ...
John Fisher (died c. 1590), politician and writer, was Town Clerk of Warwick for 27 years. John Ley (1583–1662), cleric and member of the Westminster Assembly of Divines, was born in Warwick and attended its free school. Abiezer Coppe (1619–1682), Ranter and religious pamphleteer, was born in Warwick and attended The King's School.
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428–1471), "Warwick the Kingmaker", English noble, fought in the Wars of the Roses; Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury (1400–1460), Yorkist leader during the Wars of the Roses, father of the 16th Earl of Warwick; Richard Neville, 2nd Baron Latimer (died 1530), English soldier and peer
His Earldom was forfeited and thus not able to be inherited by his son Edward Plantagenet, who did however manage to inherit it from his maternal grandmother Anne de Beauchamp (d.1492), wife of "Warwick the Kingmaker", who had been created Countess of Warwick by letters patent in 1450, at the same time her husband was created Earl of Warwick.
Warwick Castle Over its 950 years of history it has been owned by 36 different individuals, plus four periods as crown property under seven different monarchs. It was the family seat of three separate creations of the Earls of Warwick, and has been a family home for members of the Beaumont , Beauchamp, Neville, Plantagenet , Dudley and Greville ...
A kingmaker is a person or group that has great influence on a monarchy or royal in their political succession, without themselves being a viable candidate. Kingmakers may use political, monetary, religious, and military means to influence the succession.
Lady Isabel Neville (5 September 1451 – 22 December 1476) was the elder daughter and co-heiress of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (the Kingmaker of the Wars of the Roses), and Anne de Beauchamp, suo jure 16th Countess of Warwick. She was the wife of George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence.