Earl of Warwick

Also known as: Warwick · Family: England · Role: admiral · First appears: Book 1, Chapter 46, part 2/2

In 1346, King Edward sent the fleet toward Normandy, with the Earl of Warwick leading as admiral. The following campaign, Warwick was appointed one of the army’s marshals, and when the forces were divided into three battalions he served in the first alongside Prince of Wales, Earl of Oxford, Sir Godfrey de Harcourt and others. Early in the day, Warwick and Lord Reginald Cobham were among those defending the prince when the French attacked.

At Calais, Warwick joined Sir Walter Manny and Lord Stafford in taking possession of the town for King Edward. The king later granted Warwick and other English knights houses there as part of his effort to repopulate it. At the battle’s end, Warwick and Cobham conducted King John to the Prince of Wales and presented him to the prince.

In 1381, Warwick was among the barons with King Richard when the king met the crowd gathered at Rotherhithe. Advised not to land, Richard had his barge row up and down the river.