ReL Titled characters

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 86196

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ladyramkin2000"
<ladyramkin2000 at y...> wrote:
> There is a once-famous novel by (I think) Bulwer Lytton, called The 
> Last of the Barons, dealing with Warwick the Kingmaker.  The Bloody 
> Baron sounds as though he would fit in particularly well in this 
> blood-stained period, The Wars of the Roses.  I'm convinced he was 
> English.
> Sylvia


But Bulwer-Lytton was writing in the 19th-century and not particularly
concerned with historical accuracy, which in any case is hard to come
by if you're dealing with the fifteenth-century, given that almost
everything written in that period reflected a bias (Yorkist,
Lancastrian, French, or whatever). But bias aside, I can't think of
any contemporary references to Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, as a
baron. (He's usually just "Warwick.") As I said in another post, I
think that if the Bloody Baron is indeed English, despite his Gothic
aura, he's from an earlier era, possibly the early thirteenth century,
which would make him a contemporary of the notorious King John rather
than Henry VI or Edward IV.

Carol