Michael Hicks has described the roots of the Neville's alliance with Richard, Duke of York in 1453 as being based on their having 'common enemies'Hicks, M.A., English Political Culture in the Fifteenth Century (London, 2002), 105 (for instance, the king's chief minister, Edmund Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset) and that this association was significant enough to be 'a coalition of national significance.'Hicks, M.A., English Political Culture in the Fifteenth Century (London, 2002), 206
