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Belvoir Castle (/ ˈ b iː v ər / ⓘ BEE-vər) [1] is a faux historic castle and stately home in Leicestershire, England, situated 6 mi (10 km) west of the town of Grantham and 10 mi (16 km) northeast of Melton Mowbray.
This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principal family seats of English royal, titled and landed gentry families. Some of these seats are no longer occupied by the families with which they are associated, and some are ruinous – e.g. Lowther Castle.
The siege began in December 1187; the place was defended by well-supplied, tough survivors from earlier sieges. [2] Saladin, who was preoccupied with the Siege of Tyre, sent his general, Saif al-Din Mahmud, to occupy a position near the castle, but the garrison intercepted two Muslim caravans, one laden with booty taken by Saladin.
The south-eastern margin is the most clearly defined because it is formed by a conspicuous scarp slope, on which Belvoir Castle sits about 330 feet (100 m) above the valley floor. Its resistance to erosion is due to a capping of relatively thick Jurassic Ironstone. The vale-like form is further constrained by cappings of ancient glacial till ...
Belvoir Castle: Died: before 9 March 1177 (aged c. 82) Palestine: Nationality: English: Wars and battles: The Anarchy: Offices: Constable of Norwich Castle: Spouse(s) Juliane de Vere Gundreda de Beaumont: Issue: Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk Hugh Bigod William Hugh Bigod: Parents: Roger Bigod Adeliza de Tosny
Belvoir Castle (Israel), a Crusader (Hospitaller) castle in the Jordan Valley Battle of Belvoir Castle, a military campaign involving that castle; Belveer/Beauverium, a Crusader castle near Jerusalem: see Al-Qastal, Jerusalem
The Battle of Belvoir Castle, also called the Battle of Le Forbelet, was a part of Saladin’s campaign in May — August 1182 against the Crusaders. Crusader forces led by King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem battled with Ayyubid forces from Egypt commanded by Saladin. Saladin took action in Damascus on June 11, 1182, together with his regent Farrukh ...
A discovery was made by W. H. Stevenson in 1905 among some records being kept in Belvoir Castle of an entry that indicates that in March 1613, the year that the Globe theatre would later burn down during a performance of Henry VIII, William Shakespeare and Richard Burbage, who was skilled as a portrait painter of his fellow actors, were each paid forty-four shillings in gold for creating and ...