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In August 2010, the castle's website was mistakenly hacked and taken over by an Algerian group who blanked the pages and inserted anti-Semitic texts in Arabic. The hackers had mistaken Belvoir Castle for Belvoir Fortress, which is located in Israel. [28]
Belvoir Castle, also called Coquet by the Crusaders, [1] also Kochav HaYarden (Hebrew: כוכב הירדן, lit. 'Star of the Jordan') and Kawkab al-Hawa ( Arabic : كوكب الهوا , lit. 'Star of the Wind'), is a Crusader castle in northern Israel , on a hill on the eastern edge of the Issachar Plateau , on the edge of Lower Galilee 20 ...
website, military vehicles, guns, cannons and military paraphernalia Belgrave Hall: Leicester: Historic house: Victorian period house showing the contrasting lifestyles of an upper-middle-class family and domestic servants Belvoir Castle: Grantham: Historic house: Castle with gardens Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre and Country Park: Sutton ...
View of Belvoir Castle (from Woolsthorpe by Belvoir) Woolsthorpe locks (on the Grantham Canal).The Rutland Arms public house (Dirty Duck) is in the background. Belvoir Castle, which occupies a dominant position overlooking the vale, is the ancestral home of the family of the Dukes of Rutland.
After the Manners family gained the dukedom of Rutland in 1703, it built a mausoleum in the grounds of Belvoir Castle, the family home, [10] where all the dukes have been buried. [11] There is a local website covering many sides of Bottesford's local history, [12] including mounting evidence of occupation in Roman times and earlier. [13]
The collection has its origins in the Queen's Royal Lancers Regimental Museum which was established at Belvoir Castle in 1964. [1] After the lease at Belvoir Castle expired in October 2007, the trustees of the collection sought funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund to finance a move to Thoresby Hall where the Stonebridge Trust, which manages the courtyard there, offered a 25 year lease. [2]
Belvoir (/ ˈ b iː v ər / ⓘ BEE-vər) is a village and civil parish in the Melton district of Leicestershire, England, close to the county boundary with Lincolnshire. The nearest town is Grantham , 13 kilometres (8 mi) east of the village.
Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland, 12th Baron de Ros of Helmsley, KG (c. 1497 – 20 September 1543), of Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire (adjacent to the small county of Rutland), was created Earl of Rutland by King Henry VIII in 1525. [4]