Located 16 km northeast of Melton Mowbray and 10 km west of Grantham, Leicestershire, England, Belvoir Castle is a beautiful residence and faux historic castle. On this location, a castle was first constructed soon after the Norman Conquest in 1066, and it has subsequently undergone at least three reconstructions. The last structure is an early 19th-century imitation castle that is listed on grade I. David Manners, the 11th Duke of Rutland, inherited it in 1508 through a straight male line. It is his residence. The Manners family was originally buried in the parish church of St. Mary the Virgin in Bottesford, but since 1825, their historic remains have been transported to the ducal mausoleum that was constructed near to the castle in that same year. Although it is accessible to the public, the Duke of Rutland still owns it privately. The castle is located in the most northern point of Leicestershire County, overlooking the Vale of Belvoir on the Nottinghamshire border to the northwest. It is surrounded by Lincolnshire County to the east and Nottinghamshire County to the west. The settlements of Bottesford, Woolsthorpe, Knipton, Harston, Harlaxton, Croxton Kerrial, and Redmile encircle it. Originally, a Norman fortress dominated both the nearby wapentake of Winnibriggs in Lincolnshire and the high ground inside the wapentake of Framland. Until Robert de Ros received Belvoir as a grant in 1257, it was a royal manor. The Norman fortress was noted to be in ruins by 1464. Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland, began building a massive Tudor manor house in 1528. 1555 saw its completion. It was one of the more prominent strongholds of the supporters of the king during the English Civil War, and King Charles stayed the night here when traveling into Lincolnshire. Because the family backed the Royalists, Parliamentarians destroyed the Tudor structure in 1649. Many artistic creations can be found within the publicly accessible castle. The opulent state rooms—the most well-known of which are the Elizabeth Saloon, the Regents Gallery, and the State Dining Room, which is decorated in a Romanesque style—are the highlights of the tour [Information and Image Credit : Belvoir_Castle, Wikipedia] [Wikipedia-Link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belvoir_Castle ] [Image : Belvoir Castle; Wikipedia-Image Author : Jerry Gunner from Lincoln, UK] [Image is availed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License; (Please Relate to Individual Image URLs for More Usage Property and Sharing, Remixing or Attributing the Work)] [License-Link : https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en ] [Wikipedia-Image-Source-Link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Belvoir_Castle.jpg ] #Castles#History
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