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Richard Neville Warwick, earl of , 1428-71, English nobleman, called the Kingmaker. Through his grandfather, Ralph Neville, 1st earl of Westmorland , he had connections with the house of Lancaster; he was also the nephew of Cecily Neville, wife of Richard, duke of York . Through his wife, Anne de Beauchamp, he inherited the earldom of Warwick and the vast Beauchamp estates. Thus by virtue of his family and lands, Warwick was the most powerful noble in England and the principal baronial figure in the Wars of the Roses (see Roses, Wars of the ).

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