Belvoir Castle — home of the Earls of Rutland on the Leicestershire-Lincolnshire border — was a significant Royalist garrison. Gervase Lucas held it stubbornly through 1645. Its strategic position between Newark and the east Midlands made it a priority for Parliament after Naseby. The surrender in November 1645 removed a garrison that had disrupted Parliamentary communications across the region. The subsequent slighting was reversed when the castle was rebuilt in the 18th century.
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