The Royal Palaces Historic Castles And Stately Homes of Great Britain
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The original castle was founded by Robert de Todeni in the reign of the Conqueror. Belvoir came to the family of Manners early in the 1 6th century by marriage with the heiress of the last Lord de Ros. The castle, rebuilt after fire in 1816, is the principal seat of the Duke of Rutland. BERKELEY CASTLE, Gloucestershire Founded by William Fitzosborne, Earl of Hereford, friend and companion-in-arms of the Conqueror. The circular keep was built by Henry II. For Robert Fitzhardinge. The scene of th...e murder of Edward II. In 1327. Thorpe's Tower built by Edward III. Almost continuously, since 1154, in possession of the family by whom, represented by Lord Fitzhardinge, it is still inhabited. BLAIR CASTLE, Perthshire Situated, amid beautiful Highland scenery, on a terrace near the junction of the Garry and the Tilt. Cummin's Tower, the oldest part of the castle, assigned to John de Strathbogie at the close of the I3th century, and possessed by the Stewart Lords of Athole before it passed to the Murrays.
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