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Earl Of Warwick

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Noun

1. earl of warwick, kingmaker, richard neville, warwick

English statesman; during the War of the Roses he fought first for the house of York and secured the throne for Edward IV and then changed sides to fight for the house of Lancaster and secured the throne for Henry VI (1428-1471)

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Earl Of Warwick

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English military and political leader who fought for the Yorkists during the Wars of the Roses and secured the throne for Edward IV (1461). He then changed allegiance and restored the Lancastrian Henry VI to the throne (1470). He was killed in the Battle of Barnet, which regained the throne for Edward.

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