Editing Belvoir Castle (section)

=== Tudor manor ===
By 1464, the Norman castle was recorded to be ruins. In 1528, [[Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland]] started construction of a large Tudor manor house. It was completed in 1555.<ref name="BC" /><ref>{{Cite book|title=Leicestershire and Rutland|last=Pevsner|first=Nikolaus|publisher=Penguin|year=1984|isbn=0-14-071018-3|editor-last=Williamson|editor-first=Elizabeth|series=Buildings of England|location=London|pages=96}}</ref> Much of the stone for this building came from [[Croxton Abbey]] and [[Belvoir Priory]] following their dissolution.<ref name="BC"/>{{rp|22}}

Two local carpenters refurbished the billiard table in 1602 and a new baize cloth was bought from a merchant in [[Grantham]].<ref>[https://archive.org/details/cu31924032311023/page/n457/mode/2up ''HMC Duke of Rutland'', vol. 4 (London, 1905), p. 441]</ref> Tents were brought to Belvoir to accomodate the retinue of [[James VI and I]] in April 1603, and new ovens were constructed.<ref>''HMC Duke of Rutland'', vol. 4 (London, 1905), pp. 440–441.</ref> [[Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales|Prince Henry]] and the Venetian ambassador [[Antonio Foscarini]] stayed in August 1612.<ref>[[Horatio Brown]], ''Calendar State Papers Venice'', vol. 12 (London, 1912), pp. 410-11 no. 612.</ref> In the early 17th century, servants [[Witches of Belvoir|Joan, Margaret and Phillipa Flower]] were accused of murdering the [[Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland|6th Earl]]'s two young sons by [[witchcraft]]. Joan died while in prison and Margaret and Phillipa were hanged.<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC News – Witches of Belvoir 'may have been framed' |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-24748721 |publisher=[[BBC]] |date=31 October 2013 |access-date=28 August 2014 |archive-date=10 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410192428/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-24748721 |url-status=live }}</ref>

During the [[English Civil War]], it was one of the more notable strongholds of [[Charles I of England|the king]]'s supporters and King Charles spent a night here on his way into Lincolnshire.<ref name="BC"/>{{rp|30}}