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Boughton House is a country house about north-east of Kettering off the A43 road near Geddington in Northamptonshire, England, which belongs to the Duke of Buccleuch. ==History== The original house was a monastic building but Sir Edward Montagu, Lord Chief Justice to King Henry VIII, purchased it in 1528 just prior to the Dissolution of the Monasteries and began to convert it into a mansion. Most of the present building is the work of Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu (d.1709) who inherited the house in 1683. Montagu was a former English ambassador to France, and Boughton House shows strong French architectural influences. His son, John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu, made little alteration to the house, but made sweeping changes to the landscape and gardens after his return from campaign in Europe with his father-in-law, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough.〔(Boughton House Tour ). Retrieved 18 August 2009〕 Following the death of George, 3rd Duke of Montagu, in 1790, the house passed, through the marriage of his daughter, Elizabeth, to Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch, 5th Duke of Queensberry. Boughton House was little used or altered from the mid-18th century, but was well cared for. Because of this it has some of the best preserved baroque state rooms in the British Isles. Boughton House was depicted as the family estate of Marius, a character in the 2012 musical film version of ''Les Miserables''. An outdoor screening of the film later took place at the house.〔 From 2014, the Boughton House estate has been the venue for the Greenbelt festival, a Christian music festival.〔(Greenbelt festival blog ). Retrieved 19 December 2013〕 Boughton House hosts the Montagu Music Collection, containing a number of unknown sources of Italian baroque music.〔Marie Cornaz Unknown sources of Italian baroque music and new Vivaldi operatic discoveries in the Montagu Music Collection (Boughton House, UK), Revue belge de Musicologie, vol.LXVI (2012), https://kbr.academia.edu/MarieCornaz〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Boughton House」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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