Fotheringhay

American  

[foth-uh-ring-gey] / ˈfɒð ə rɪŋˌgeɪ /

noun

1. a village in NE Northamptonshire, in E England, near Peterborough: Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned here and executed 1587.

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Fotheringhay British  

/ ˈfɒðərɪŋˌɡeɪ /

noun

1. a village in E England, in NE Northamptonshire: ruined castle, scene of the imprisonment and execution of Mary Queen of Scots (1587)

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Example Sentences

In 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England after she was implicated in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.

From Washington Times • Feb. 8, 2021

Fotheringhay Castle was a Yorkist palace during the 15th Century and St Mary and All Saints' Church is the burial place of four members of the dynasty.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2015

He was born in 1452 in Fotheringhay Castle in Northamptonshire, eastern England, but details about his early childhood are spotty.

From Scientific American • Aug. 18, 2014

He said the king was born at Fotheringhay, in Northamptonshire, and brought up in Middleham, in north Yorkshire, and his title prior to becoming king was the Duke of Gloucester.

From BBC • Aug. 19, 2013

Midway between historic Fotheringhay and ancient Apethorpe, the ancestral seat of the Earls of Westmorland, lay the long, straggling, and rather poverty-stricken village of Woodnewton.

From The House of Whispers by Le Queux, William