WARWICK, Richard Neville, EARL OF, English soldier and statesman, known as the °Kingmaker*: b. about 1428; d. Barnet, Hert fordshire, 14 April 1471. In the battle of Saint Albans (1455), the opening action of the Wars of the Roses, he fought on the Yorkist, the winning side, and. three years later as lord deputy of Calais and admiral of the fleet gained a splendid success over the Spaniards, but a quarrel between his followers and those of the king led to charges against him which resulted in his taking the field of Ludlow with his cousin, the Duke of York (1459). On being defea:ted, he withdrew to Calais, and thence in the follow ing summer recrossed to Kent, ansl mastering London, brought about the compromise by which Henry VI was to reign for life, but York was to be recognized as his successor. There upon Margaret of Anjou, touting and slaying York and Salisbury at Wakt:field, advanced to Saint Albans, where a second battle ended in Warwick's defeat. WarNN ick, however, joined
the young Earl of March (II( w Duke of York), and boldly placed him on tilt throne as Edward IV, then chasing the Lancastt ians back to York shire, cut them to pieces on the field of Towton 29 March 1461. Warwick, however, bestowed his daughter on the Duke of Clarence, and after seizing on Edward's person, executing the queen's father and brother. entered upon a scheme for malcing Clarence king.
Failure drove him once more to France, where, through the mediation of Louis XI, he engaged to restore the crown to Henry VI, with the understanding that Margaret wed her son to Warwick's daughter Anne. His landing in Devonshire came like a clap of thunder to Ed ward IV, who from the North, where he was busy quelling a revolt, escaped to Burgundy, leaving Warwick master of the kingdom. Ed ward returned in six months' time, and War wick with his brother was routed and slain at Barnet