Richard Neville was a hero in his own time. He was very popular, a strategist, a plotter, a winner, and a loser, but he never gave up. He was Warwick, the Kingmaker. I wanted to write about him briefly as I have based my hero on him. Warwick was born to one of the most powerful families in England at the time, the Nevilles. He "inherited" his title, Earl of Warwick, from his wedding to Anne Beauchamp in 1449. Warwick's marriage made him even more powerful as it allied him wit