

From this, I hope to determine if during this period of time the earls of Warwick were mainly a nuisance to the king or overall a beneficial ally to have and thus what effect this had on both aspects of the careers of the earls. The primary objective of this dissertation is to explore and analyse both the military and political careers of the earls of Warwick in the era 1369 with the beginning of the earldom of Thomas de Beauchamp to the end of the earldom of Richard Neville in 1471.
