Editing Nottingham (section)

===15th and 16th Centuries===
During the reign of [[Henry IV of England|Henry IV’s]] [[Joan of Navarre, Queen of England|Queen Joan]] lived at the castle. And [[Edward IV]] proclaimed himself king at the castle. <ref> Armitage, Jill (2015). Nottingham A History. Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK: Amberley Publishing. p. 54. ISBN 978-1445634982. OCLC 1064131788 </ref>

By the 15th century Nottingham had established itself as a centre of a thriving export trade in religious sculpture made from [[Nottingham alabaster]].<ref>Medieval English Alabaster Carvings in the Castle Museum Nottingham, [[Francis Cheetham]], City of Nottingham art Galleries and Museums Committee, 1973</ref> During the late medieval period Nottingham alabasters were exported as far afield as Iceland, and may be one reason why a small number of Icelandic immigrants lived in Nottingham during the 15th century.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Out of the Land of Ice and Fire: Icelandic Immigrants in the Midlands During the Fifteenth Century|journal=Midland History|date=2023 |doi=10.1080/0047729X.2023.2217231 |last1=Lomax |first1=Scott C. |volume=48 |issue=2 |pages=158–175 |s2cid=259773316 |doi-access=free }}</ref> The town became a [[county corporate]] in 1449<ref>A Centenary history of Nottingham. J. V. Beckett</ref> giving it effective self-government, in the words of the charter, "for eternity". The Castle and Shire Hall were expressly excluded and remained as detached Parishes of [[Nottinghamshire]].

[[Henry VIII]] ordered tapestries for the castle. He visited the Castle in 1511. <ref> 
Howard Colvin, History of the King's Works, 3:1 (London: HMSO, 1975), p. 284</ref>