Ok, so I'm totally into the Wars of the Roses. WI: Richard Neville manages to escape and survive the battle that resulted in his death and restoration of Edward IV. WI: He's still alive when Edward dies in 1483?
Ok, so I'm totally into the Wars of the Roses. WI: Richard Neville manages to escape and survive the battle that resulted in his death and restoration of Edward IV. WI: He's still alive when Edward dies in 1483?
So, he'll either be deprived of his estates in favor of his daughters, and allowed to live (much like his wife, in close confinement).
As others have said, his best case scenario is escaping to the continent. Which admittedly isn't completely impossible (Oxford was at the same battle, and managed it). But he will be extremely high on Edward's target list, and if he ends up getting captured at any point (as Oxford did), he's probably dead.Ok, so I'm totally into the Wars of the Roses. WI: Richard Neville manages to escape and survive the battle that resulted in his death and restoration of Edward IV. WI: He's still alive when Edward dies in 1483?
Ok, so I'm totally into the Wars of the Roses. WI: Richard Neville manages to escape and survive the battle that resulted in his death and restoration of Edward IV. WI: He's still alive when Edward dies in 1483?
If he does survive and is still alive, he probably ends up as one of the Tudor generals at Bosworth (much like...Oxford).
Warwick is done after 1471, even if he doesn't die he will be stripped of all lands and titles. Furthermore, given his personality, chances are he'll try yet again to plot against EIV and get his head chopped off, kinda like Clarence OTL.
Granted Edward IV might have wanted to keep him alive because was a good friend and ally back in 1460-61. If he does survive I wouldn't be surprised if he switches to Tudor's side in an effort to regain some land/influence.
I think it's important to remember that as far as plotting went, Clarence was singularly incompetent - and also, when EIV finally signed his death warrant, it was due to the fact that it wasn't the first time that he'd forgiven his brother's treachery. Warwick was (by comparison to Clarence) a far smarter cookie when it came to plotting.
Therefore, the minute EIV breathes his last, Warwick will make all haste back to England (assuming he fled abroad). Warwick never liked the Woodvilles, so he's going to try and head a faction against them; while the Woodvilles, with a more common visible enemy (as opposed to Gloucester who in Shakespeare's words "clothed in odds-and-ends stolen from holy writ, to most seem the saint when I play the devil") might be more of one mindset than OTL.
And after all, Richard III was his son-in-law.
For him to still be alive when Edward dies is going to take some legal shenanigans, since Warwick was well and truly a traitor. Yes, he was brother to the king's mother, and father-in-law to two of the king's brothers; but that's not necessarily going to save his head. Him dying in battle was the only way Edward was deprived of that possibility - Warwick, much like Clarence, later, is too powerful to be left to dangle as a loose thread. So, he'll either be deprived of his estates in favor of his daughters, and allowed to live (much like his wife, in close confinement), or be cropped at the neck for reaching too high.
However, a storm of butterflies and Edward forgives him blah-blah, and he's still alive in '83, Clarence has been drowned/beheaded as OTL, then he's definitely going to favor Edward of Clarence over Edward V/Richard III (traitor father or no); although, he might do one of his characteristic volte faces to side against Gloucester (but I doubt it).