Warwick the Kingmaker was a fifteenth-century celebrity: a military hero, self-publicist and populist.
For the two middle decades of that century he was the arbiter of English politics, not hesitating to set up and put down kings – having seized the crown for the Yorkist king Edward IV in 1461, he later restored to power the deposed Lancastrian monarch Henry VI.
He was a skilled diplomat and adroit politician, unafraid to go to whatever lengths necessary to secure his power.
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