Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (22 November 142814 April 1471), known as
Warwick the Kingmaker, was an English nobleman, administrator, and military commander. The son of
Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, Warwick was the wealthiest and most powerful English
peer of his age, with political connections that went beyond the country's borders. One of the leaders in the
Wars of the Roses, originally on the
Yorkist side but later switching to the
Lancastrian side, he was instrumental in the deposition of two kings, a fact which later earned him his epithet of "Kingmaker" to later generations.