Crossword clues for kingmaker
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also king-maker, 1590s, originally in reference to the 15c. Earl of Warwick.
Wiktionary
n. Someone who has strong influence over the choice of a leader.
WordNet
n. an important person who can bring leaders to power through the exercise of political influence; "the Earl of Warwick was the first kingmaker"
Wikipedia
A kingmaker is a person or group that has great influence in a royal or political succession, without being a viable candidate. Kingmakers may use political, monetary, religious, and military means to influence the succession. Originally, the term applied to the activities of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick—"Warwick the Kingmaker"—during the Wars of the Roses ( 1455- 1487) in England.
Kingmaker is a board game created by Andrew McNeil. It was first produced in the UK by PhilMar Ltd. in 1974. The second edition was produced by Avalon Hill in the United States in 1975. This version was somewhat different from the original, as it refined the rules and required less knowledge about England to play. TM Games also released an edition in 1983 that was essentially a re-issue of the Avalon Hill version.
The game is set in the time of the English Wars of the Roses (1455–1487). Two to seven can play. Each player builds and controls a faction of nobles that, through battle, diplomacy and politics, attempts to eliminate other player's factions, and gain control of one or more members of the two rival royal families, the House of Lancaster and the House of York.
Kingmaker were a British indie rock group, founded in Kingston upon Hull in 1990.
The group was formed during their gap year by school friends Loz Hardy and Myles Howell. They placed an advertisement for a drummer, and recruited John Andrew who was an ex-travelling puppeteer and considerably older; he has also worked for the BBC as an engineer.
A kingmaker is a person who can influence the selection of a monarch, without being a candidate for the position itself.
Kingmaker can also mean:
- Kingmaker (board game), a 1974 game set in the English Wars of the Roses
- Kingmaker (band), a 1990s British indie rock group
- "Kingmaker" (Law & Order), a 2006 episode of NBC's legal drama Law & Order
- The Kingmaker, a 2006 Doctor Who audio drama
- King Maker (novel), a 2010 urban fantasy novel by Maurice Broaddus
- King Maker (TV series), a 2012 TVB television drama
- Kingmaker (song) a 2013 song by American Thrash Metal band Megadeth from their album Super Collider
- Neverwinter Nights: Kingmaker (expansion pack), an expansion pack for the computer game Neverwinter Nights
- Neverwinter Nights: Kingmaker (module), a premium module for the game
- The Kingmaker (comics), a Marvel Comics character related to the X-Men
- "The Kingmaker" (The Blacklist), a 2014 episode of TV series The Blacklist
The Kingmaker is the name of three fictional supervillains appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
Usage examples of "kingmaker".
Kingmaker rumbled like buried thunder, and Kingmaker was always impressed by his own eloquence.
Paul presented Brooks with credentials and directives from Kingmaker, and Brooks accepted them.
Paul had forged them during the passage, though he could have gotten real ones from Kingmaker himself or through Foreman.
My master Kingmaker has employed such men before, and it is not for me to question it.
All were assembled, and all were on their feet now: Kingmaker, Proctor, Foreman, Pottscamp, Northprophet, Dobowski, Quickcrafter, Haddad, Chezem, Treva, Goldgopher, Chu, Sykes, Fabelo, Dulldoggle, Potter, Landmaster, Salver, Stoimenof, all the high dukes of Astrobe, half a dozen former world presidents, the tall scientists and mind-men, the world designers.
While Kingmaker talked, Thomas entertained in the cellar of his mind one of those passage dreams such as both he and Paul had experienced on the transit between Earth and Astrobe.
Cosmos Kingmaker was a great golden spider, for all that he wore the head of a lion in the dream.
The Big Ones had Thomas up on the carpet the next morning: Kingmaker, Proctor, Foreman, Chezem, Pottseamp, Wot-tle, Northprophet.
Disaster followed and the Earl of Warwick turned Kingmaker once again.
How could he be a kingmaker if there was not any need to make a king and keep him on the throne?
The Fifteenth Century 1399-1485 Kendall, Paul Murray, Richard 111 Kendall, Paul Murray, Warwick, the Kingmaker Lamb, V.
The Betrayal of Richard 111 MacGibbon, David, Elizabeth Woodville Oman, Charles, Warwick the Kingmaker Ramsay, J.
There were a thousand ways to die in the Amazon, but few as exquisitely painful as the kingmaker beetle.
Thousands of five-inch-long kingmaker beetles, their iridescent carapaces adding a surreally colored and ever-shifting surface to everything inside the room.
Vargas and the dozens of kingmaker beetles scrabbling out of the broken tower.