Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, 6th Earl of Salisbury, known as Warwick the Kingmaker, was an English nobleman, administrator, landowner of the House of Neville fortune and military commander.
Warwick as drawn in the Rous Roll. He displays on his shield the arms of Montagu quartering Monthermer. The bull's head is the crest of the Neville family, the eagle is the crest of Montagu.
Middleham Castle, now in North Yorkshire, was Warwick's favourite residence in England. In the late 1450s business in Calais in France kept him away from it for periods.
The Earl of Warwick's Vow by Henry Tresham depicting Warwick cutting the throat of his own horse and vowing not to abandon the battlefield prior to the Battle of Towton
The Battle of Barnet, where Warwick was killed. Edward IV can be seen on the left, wearing a crown, and Warwick on the right being pierced by a lance. In reality, Edward did not kill Warwick.
The Wars of the Roses, known at the time and in the following centuries as the Civil Wars, were a series of armed confrontations, machinations, battles and campaigns fought for control of the English
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick
…and most powerful English peer of his age, with political connections that went beyond the country's borders. One of the principal leaders in the Wars of the Roses (1455–1487), originally on the Yorkist side but later switching to the Lancastrian side, he was instrumental in the rise of a king and the deposition…
Plucking the Red and White Roses, by Henry Payne
Battle of Bosworth by Philip James de Loutherbourg