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In 1464 during the Wars of the Roses, Bamburgh Castle became the first castle in England to be defeated by artillery, at the end of a nine-month siege by Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick. He fought in the First Battle of St. Albans on 22 May 1455, commander of the Yorks.
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick ( 1428 – April 14, 1471 ), was also known as "Warwick the Kingmaker." Neville was the richest man in England outside the royal family, and he used his wealth and power to help depose the "Lancastrian" Henry VI in favor of the "Yorkist" Edward IV, and then later to place Henry VI back on the throne.
The head of Lancastrian forces at Barnet was Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (which, in honorable British tradition, we pronounce Warrick). He was called Kingmaker because after the death of his father he was the most influential land owner in England and lent his miltary support toward making his cousin, Edward IV, King of England.
Warwick, Richard Neville, earl of (nĕvˈəl) (, wŏrˈĭk), 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.
General Notes. Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, was a Yorkist leader during the early parts of the Wars of the Roses. Richard Neville was born in 1400 at Raby Castle in County Durham.
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