Biography of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick (The Kingmaker)

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Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick (The Kingmaker)

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Family Name:

Neville

Given Names:

Richard

Known As:

Warwick the Kingmaker

Titles:

Knight of the Garter

Earl of Salisbury (1442 cr - 2nd)

Earl of Warwick (1449 cr)

Born:

22 Nov 1428
Unknown place

Died:

14 Apr 1471
Barnet, Hertfordshire, England
(Age 42, Killed in Battle)

English/Scottish Royal Blood: 19.0675735% [?]

Buried:

Bisham Abbey, Berkshire, England

Father:

Richard Neville, 1st Earl of Salisbury

1400 - 31 Dec 1460

Mother:

Alice Montacute (mother of the Kingmaker)

About 1406 - 1463

Marriage:

Anne Beauchamp (mother of Queen Anne Neville)

Before 1439 - About 1490

Date: Before 1449

His Age: 20

Her Age: 20

Place: Unknown place

Offspring:

Isabel Neville (wife of George, Duke of Clarence)

5 Sep 1451 - 14 Dec 1476

Anne Neville (wife of King Richard III)

11 Jun 1456 - 16 Mar 1485

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Notes:

Richard commanded the centre of the Yorkist army at the first battle of St. Albans, leading the attack that broke through the Lancastrian lines.

Richard commanded the Yorkist army at the battle of Northampton, at which he was saved from defeat only by the treachery of Edmund, Lord Grey of Ruthin, who deserted the Lancastrian cause at a vital moment.

Richard's army was defeated by the Lancastrians, under Queen Margaret, at the second battle of St. Albans.

Richard commanded the left wing of the Yorkist army at the battle of Towton.

Killed at the battle of Barnet.

No known contemporary portrait of the Kingmaker exists, although the manuscript of "The Pageant of the Birth, Life and Death of Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick" (his father-in-law) has a drawing of him, his wife, and daughters made some time between 1485 and 1490.

A character in Shakespeare's plays, 2 and 3 Henry VI.

In Henry IV, Part I, Shakespeare makes a small history mistake when he has King Henry address Warwick as "Neville," since at that time the earldom of Warwick was still held by the Kingmaker's father-in-law Richard Beauchamp.

In Henry VI, Part 2, after Warwick has accused Suffolk of the murder of Gloucester, Suffolk has angry words for Warwick: "Blunt-witted lord, ignoble in demeanour, If ever lady wrong'd her lord so much, Thy mother took into her blameful bed Some stern untutor'd churl, and noble stock Was graft with crab-tree slip, whose fruit thou art, And never of the Nevils' noble race." Henry VI, Part 2 Act 3, scene 2

Early in Henry VI, Part 3, Warwick stresses to the Duke of York that the duke is rightfully the king: "Victorious Prince of York, Before I see thee seated in that throne Which now the house of Lancaster usurps, I vow by heaven these eyes shall never close. This is the palace of the fearful King, And this the regal seat. Possess it, York; For this is thine, and not King Henry's heirs'." Henry VI, Part 3 Act 1, scene 1

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