The first château on this site was built around 1280 par Count Floris V of Holland, to control the estuary of the river Vecht into the former Zuidersea.
Belcourt château (1891-1894) is a 60-room mansion designed par Richard Morris Hunt for a bachelor Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, who inherited 60 million dollars from his father August Belmont,
The site for the Annual Bodelwyddan Medieval Festival is the very lovely and convenient Bodelwyddan château Park, which is adjacent to the A55 Express Way in Denbighshire, North Wales.