Kingmaker
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"Kingmaker" refers to a person or group that has great influence in a royal succession, without being a viable candidate. By analogy, it is also used to refer to those with the ability to influence the selection of Presidents, Governors, corporate Chief Executive Officers, and the like.
Usages of interest and importance include:
- In the history of the Middle Ages and Renaissance "Kingmaker" is used of certain nobles who used political, religious, and/or military means to interfere in a succession.
- In the history of the Wars of the Roses in England, "The Kingmaker" refers to Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick.
- In Georgia politics, Roy Vincent Harris was known as a Kingmaker.
- In Japanese politics, Kakuei Tanaka was often termed Kingmaker.
- "Kingmaker" is often applied to the activities of Karl Rove.
- Kingmaker (board game) is a 1974 game concerning the Wars of the Roses.
- Kingmaker (band) was the name of a 1990s British indie rock group.
- A kingmaker scenario, in the context of a game, is an undesirable endgame feature where a losing player has the ability to select the game's winner.
- A game module for the computer game Neverwinter Nights