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unusual facts about Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick



Battle of Blackpool Sands

Norman Longmate says that the Earl of Warwick advised Hawley on the defensive preparations but not that he was present at the battle.

Clapham, North Yorkshire

In the 14th century John de Clapham, who took his surname from the village, was a supporter of the Earl of Warwick and lived at Clapdale Castle.

Douglas Sheffield, Baroness Sheffield

After the death of Queen Elizabeth in May 1603, Lady Sheffield's son, Sir Robert Dudley, began trying to claim his father's and his uncle's extinct titles of Earl of Leicester and Earl of Warwick.

Earl of Warwick

The heraldic device of the Earls of Warwick, the bear and ragged staff, is believed to derive from two legendary Earls, Arthal and Morvidus.

Earl of Warwick was one of the GWR 3031 Class locomotives that were built for and run on the Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915.

Also, Lady Elizabeth Rich, only daughter and heiress of the fifth Earl of Warwick and second Earl of Holland, married Francis Edwardes.

Elfael

The lordship descended in the Tosny family, and then passed in 1309 to an heiress, who married one of the Beauchamp family, Earls of Warwick.

Elizabeth Howard, Duchess of Norfolk

Henry Stafford, 1st Baron Stafford (18 September 1501 – 30 April 1563), who married Ursula Pole, daughter of Sir Richard Pole by his second wife, Lady Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury, daughter of George, Duke of Clarence and Lady Isabel Neville, daughter of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick ("Warwick, the Kingmaker").

Faxton

In 1610, the Manor of Kibworth, Leicestershire was jointly granted to Augustine, Anthony Shugborough and John Smith after Ambrose Dudley, the Earl of Warwick, died without an heir.

George Stanley, 9th Baron Strange

He was born about 1460 at Knowsley, Lancashire, England, the eldest son of Thomas Stanley and his first wife Eleanor, sister of Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick.

Historie of the arrivall of Edward IV

On 2 October 1470, King Edward had fled to Flanders in the face of a rebellion by Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick.

John Woodville

In January 1465, Woodville's sister, Queen Elizabeth, procured his marriage to Catherine Neville, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk (born c. 1400 – died after 1483), who was aunt to the powerful Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick.

Kingmaker Novices' Chase

The title of the race refers to the 16th Earl of Warwick, who was known as the "Kingmaker" during the Wars of the Roses.

Le Neubourg

He gave the manor to his second son Henry de Beaumont (c.1048-1119), who was created 1st Earl of Warwick in 1088 and who adopted for himself and his descendants the surname "de Newburgh", the Anglicised adjectival form of his Norman lordship.

Lettice Knollys

In 1603 Dudley initiated moves to prove that he was the legitimate son of his parents and thus the heir to the earldoms of Warwick and Leicester.

Longtown Castle

The castle began to decline in importance, however, and in 1369 passed to the Despensers and then the Beauchamps, neither of whom used the castle.

Lord Leycester Hospital

The Guildhall was built in 1450 by the 16th Earl of Warwick.

Middleham Castle

In 1270 it came into the hands of the Neville family, the most notable member of which was Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, known to history as the "Kingmaker", a leading figure in the Wars of the Roses.

Morvidus

For this reason, he is associated with the symbol of a ragged staff, which appears in the crest of the Earl of Warwick who are believed to be descended from Morvidus.

Peddimore Hall

In 1288, the owners of Peddimore Hall were allowed by the Earl of Warwick, William de Beauchamp to fish in Ebrook (now Plants Brook) on his land, allow his pigs to roam in the woods and was allowed to remove timber for building reparations.

Richard Neville

Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428–1471), known as "Warwick the Kingmaker", English noble, fought in the Wars of the Roses (1455–1485)

Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury (1400–1460), Yorkist leader during the Wars of the Roses (1455–1485), father of the 16th Earl of Warwick

Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury

Three of Richard's sisters married dukes (the youngest Cecily, marrying Richard, Duke of York), and Richard himself married Alice Montacute, daughter and heiress of Thomas Montacute, the Earl of Salisbury.

However Salisbury turned to the cause of Richard, Duke of York, who made him Lord Chancellor in 1455.

Robin of Redesdale

Whoever he was, the power behind his rebellion was Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick ("Warwick the Kingmaker").

Sandridge

In February 1461 the final skirmishes of the Second Battle of St Albans took place in and around Sandridge as the Earl of Warwick, for the Yorkists, retreated towards Nomansland.

Tandridge, Surrey

Due to the Cousins' Wars she became widow of Warwick the king-maker and was finally compelled to convey her enormous estates to Henry VII.

The Battle of Poitiers

Strategically, Edward divided his troops into three sections; one led by Earl of Salisbury, another by Earl of Warwick, and the third by the Black Prince himself.

The Last of the Barons

Its plot revolves around the power struggle between the English King Edward IV and his powerful minister Earl of Warwick.

The Reluctant Queen

She recalls growing up in the English countryside with her noble family: her father Richard, her mother Anne, and sister Isabel.

Anne's father as the Earl of Warwick has played a crucial part in placing Edward on the English Throne, and plans to marry him to French noblewoman, Bona of Savoy, much to his daughter Isabel's chagrin as she secretly wants to be Queen Consort.

Walter Wrottesley

Walter was a firm adherent of Warwick "the king-maker", and on 7 November 1460 he was appointed High Sheriff of Staffordshire.

William Batten

In March 1642 Batten was appointed second-in-command under the Earl of Warwick, the parliamentary admiral who took the fleet out of the kings hands, and up to the end of the First Civil War showed himself a steady partisan of the parliament.

Wren's Cathedral

Wren's Cathedral was originally founded as the Monastery of St. Leonard at Wroxall, Warwickshire in 1141 for nuns, by Sir Hugh-Hatton eldest son of the Earl of Warwick.


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