See also:EARL OF See also:RICHARD See also:NEVILLE See also:WARWICK (1428—1471)
, called " the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king-maker," was eldest son of See also:Richard See also:Neville, See also:earl of See also:Salisbury, by Alice, only daughter and heiress of See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas, the last Montacute earl of Salisbury
.
He was See also:born on the 22nd of See also:November 1428, and whilst still a boy betrothed to See also:Anne, daughter of Richard See also:Beauchamp, earl of See also:Warwick
.
When her See also:brother's daughter died in 1449, Anne, as only See also:sister of the whole See also:blood, brought her See also:husband the See also:title and See also:chief See also:share of the Warwick estates
.
Richard Neville thus became the premier earl, and both in See also:power and position excelled his See also:father
.
Richard, See also:duke of See also:York, was his See also:uncle, so when York became See also:protector in 1453, and Salisbury was made See also:chancellor, it was natural that Warwick should be one of the See also:council
.
After the king's recovery in 1455 Warwick and his father took up See also:arm's in York's support
.
Their victory at St Albans on the 22nd of May was due to the fierce See also:energy with which Warwick assaulted and See also:broke the Lancastrian centre
.
He was rewarded with the important See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of See also:captain of See also:Calais; to his position there he owed his strength during the next five years
.
Even when York was displaced at bonne, Warwick retained his See also:post, and in 1457 was also made See also:admiral
.
He was See also:present in See also:February 1458 at the professed reconciliation of the two parties in a loveday at St See also:Paul's, See also:London
.
During the previous See also:year he had done some See also:good fighting on the See also:march of Calais by See also:land, and kept the See also:sea with vigour; now on his return he distinguished himself in a See also:great fight with See also:Spanish See also:ships off Calais on the 28th of May, and in the autumn by capturing a See also:German See also:salt-See also:fleet on its way to See also:Lubeck
.
These exploits brought him a See also:prestige and popularity that were distasteful to the See also:home See also:government
.
Moreover, See also:England was at See also:war neither with See also:Castile nor with the Hanse
.
Warwick's See also:action may possibly have formed See also:part of some Yorkist See also:design for frustrating the See also:foreign policy of their rivals
.
At all events there was pretext enough for recalling him to make his See also:defence
.
Whilst he was at the See also:court at See also:Westminster a brawl occurred between his retainers and some of the royal See also:household
.
Warwick himself escaped with difficulty, and went back to Calais, alleging that his See also:life had been deliberately attempted
.
When in the following year a renewal of the war was imminent, Warwick crossed over to England with his trained soldiers from Calais under See also:Sir See also:Andrew See also:Trollope
.
But at See also:Ludlow on the 12th of See also:October Trollope and his men deserted, and See also:left the Yorkists helpless
.
Warwick, with his father, his See also:cousin the See also:young See also:Edward of York, and only three followers, made his way to See also:Barnstaple
.
There they hired a little fishing See also:vessel
.
The See also:master pleaded that he did not know the Channel, but Warwick resourcefully took command and himself steered a successful course to Calais
.
He arrived just in See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to anticipate the duke of See also:Somerset, whom the Lancastrians had sent to supersede him
.
During the See also:winter Warwick held Calais against Somerset, and sent out a fleet which seized See also:Sandwich and captured See also:Lord See also:Rivers
.
In the See also:spring he went to See also:Ireland to See also:concert plans with Richard of York
.
On his return voyage he encountered a See also:superior Lancastrian fleet in the Channel
.
But See also:Exeter; the See also:rival See also:commander, could not See also:trust his crews and dared not fight
.
From Calais Warwick, Salisbury and Edward of York crossed to Sandwich on the 26th of See also:June
.
A few days later they entered London, whence Warwick at once marched See also:north
.
On the loth of See also:July he routed the Lancastrians at See also:Northampton, and took the king prisoner
.
For the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to spare the See also:commons and slay the lords Warwick was responsible, as also for some later executions at London
.
Yet when Richard of York was disposed to claim the See also:crown, it was, according to See also:Waurin, Warwick who decided the discussion in favour of a See also:compromise, perhaps from See also:loyalty to See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry, or perhaps from the wish not to See also:change a weak See also:sovereign for a strong
.
Warwick was in See also:charge of London at the
time when Richard and Salisbury were defeated and slain at See also:Wakefield
.
The Lancastrians won a second victory at St Albans on the 17th of February 1461, possibly through lack of See also:general-See also:ship on Warwick's part
.
But in his plans to retrieve the disaster Warwick showed skill and decision
.
He met Edward of York in See also:Oxfordshire, brought him in See also:triumph to London, had him proclaimed king, and within a See also:month of his defeat at St Albans was marching north in pursuit of the Lancastrians
.
The good generalship which won the victory of See also:Towton may have been due to Edward rather than to Warwick, but the new king was of the creation of the powerful earl, who now had his See also:reward
.
For four years the government was centred undisputedly in the hands of Warwick and his See also:friends
.
The energy of his brother See also:John, Lord See also:Montagu, frustrated the various attempts of the Lancastrians in the north
.
In another See also:sphere Warwick himself was determining the lines of See also:English policy on the basis of an See also:alliance with See also:France
.
The power of the Nevilles seemed to be completed by the promotion of See also:George, the third i,rother, to be See also:archbishop of York
.
The first check came with the announcement in See also:September 1464 of the king's See also:secret See also:marriage to See also:Elizabeth Woodville
.
This was particularly distasteful to Warwick, who had but just pledged Edward to a See also:French match
.
For the time, however, there was no open See also:breach
.
The trouble began in 1466, when Edward first made Rivers, the See also:queen's father, treasurer, and afterwards threw obstacles in the way of an intended marriage between Warwick's daughter See also:Isabel and George of See also:Clarence, his own next brother
.
Still in May 1467 Warwick went again with the king's assent to conclude a treaty with France
.
He returned to find that in his See also:absence Edward, under Woodville's See also:influence, had committed himself definitely to the Burgundian alliance
.
Warwick retired in dudgeon to his estates, and began to See also:plot in secret for his revenge
.
In the summer of 1469 he went over to Calais, where Isabel and Clarence were married without the king's knowledge
.
Meantime he had stirred up the See also:rebellion of See also:Robin of See also:Redesdale in See also:Yorkshire; and when Edward was See also:drawn north Warwick invaded England in arms
.
The king, outmarched and outnumbered, had to yield himself prisoner, whilst Rivers and his son John were executed
.
Warwick was apparently content with the overthrow of the Woodvilles, and believed that he had secured Edward's submission
.
In March 1470 a rebellion in See also:Lincolnshire gave Edward an opportunity to gather an See also:army of his own
.
When the king alleged that he had found See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof of Warwick's complicity, the earl, taken by surprise, fled with Clarence to France
.
There, through the instrumentality of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XI., he was with some difficulty reconciled to See also:Margaret of See also:Anjou, and agreed to marry his second daughter to her son
.
In September Warwick and Clarence, with the Lancastrian lords, landed at See also:Dartmouth
.
Edward in his turn had to See also:fly oversea, and for six months Warwick ruled England as See also:lieutenant for Henry VI., who was restored from his See also:prison in the See also:Tower to a nominal See also:throne
.
But the Lancastrian restoration was unwelcome to Clarence, who began to intrigue with his brother
.
When in March 1471 Edward landed at Ravenspur, Clarence found an opportunity to join him
.
Warwick was completely outgenerailed, and at See also:Barnet on the 14th of See also:April was defeated and slain
.
Warwick has been made famous by See also:Lytton as " The Last of the Barons." The title suits him as a great feudal lord, who was a good fighter but a poor general, who had more sympathy with the old order than with the new culture
.
But he was more than this
.
He had some of the qualities of a strong ruler, and the power to command popularity
.
He was a skilled diplomatist and an adroit politician
.
These qualities, with his position as the See also:head of a great See also:family, the chief representative of Beauchamp, See also:Despenser, Montacute and Neville, made him during ten years " the king-maker."
Warwick's only See also:children were his two daughters
.
Anne, the younger, was married after his See also:death to Richard of See also:Gloucester, the future Richard III
.
Their husbands shared his See also:inheritance and quarrelled over its See also:division
.
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